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Professor David Bridges

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Email:
d.bridges@uea.ac.uk
Telephone:
+44 (0)1603 592614
Fax:
+44 (0)1603 451412
Office location:
EDU 1.50

 

Research

 

Research Interests

Professor David Bridges is currently Executive Director of the Association of Universities of the Eastern Region and Professorial Fellow in CARE having recently been Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University and previously Dean of the School. He combines a background in Philosophy with extensive experience of research and evaluation work in schools and LEAs as well as consultancy work for international development organisations in Ethiopia, Vietnam, Guyana, Belize and Ghana. A book arising out of his own and other members' of the School's work in Ethiopia was published in 2000 under the title Secondary teacher education in Ethiopia. His publications include Developing Teachers Professionally (ed with Kerry), Education and the Market Place (ed with McLaughlin) and Consorting and Collaborating in the Education Market Place (ed with Husbands). In 1997 he published an important collection of papers from across the world in Routledge's New International Library of Philosophy of Education under the title Education, Autonomy and Democratic Citizenship: philosophy in a changing world. He has convened a number of symposia at international conferences on the theme of Philosophy & Educational Research and is currently working on a collection of essays on this topic and has published an edited book (with Mcnamee) on Ethics in Educational Research (Blackwell 2002).
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