Professor Jim Campbell
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| University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7AL |
Tel: Fax: Email:j dot campbell at warwick dot ac dot uk |
RESEARCH PROFILEMy research interests include: policy and practice in primary education; curriculum theory and curriculum change; education policy; educational effectiveness; teacher training and development; the education of children identified as gifted. I have also researched in a minor way the leadership delusion in education.
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BACKGROUNDAfter an undergraduate degree in Classics and Moral Philosophy, I taught in a primary school, two secondary (comprehensive) schools and a further education college. I then worked as a research officer in the Curriculum Research Unit at London University's Institute of Education, before moving to Coventry College of Education and to Warwick University in 1978. I was appointed to a personal professorship in 1991 and was elected Director of WIE from 1997-2002. I became emeritus professor upon my retirement in 2007. I was Director of Research at the National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth from 2004-2007. I have held visiting Professorships at the University of Eastern Michigan in Ypsilanti, The University of Cyprus in Nicosia, The Cyprus International Institute of Management in Nicosia and the University of Plymouth, UK. I have been external examiner in a large number of universities, including Bristol, Cambridge, Exeter, Leicester, London, Oxford, Ulster, and the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. I have supervised over forty research theses to successful completion, and have published 12 books and over 100 articles, book chapters and research reports. I have tried, with varying degrees of success, to conduct research that makes an impact. My empirical case studies of primary school curriculum innovation advocated a move to more specialised subject teaching in primary schools, now pretty much universal practice, while research with my colleague Sean Neill demonstrated empirically the unmanageability of the national curriculum, and led to an invitation to present findings to Sir Ron Dearing as he led the Government's review of the school curriculum, to civil servants, and interviews on TV and radio news bulletins. Both these projects were disseminated widely to the profession, through local authority conferences and annual conferences of teacher unions. Research with colleagues Leonidas Kyriakides, Daniel Muijs and Wendy Robinson, published as a book and papers in international journals helped to revise theorising on teacher effectiveness, and led to an entry on Evaluating Teacher Quality and Practice in the new edition of the International Encyclopaedia of Education. More recently my research on gifted education, published as books with colleagues Wendy Robinson and Laura Mazzoli Smith, and in international journals, has contributed to understanding effectiveness in teaching gifted students and how working class families of gifted students construct giftedness. I am on the editorial board of Education 3-13 and Gifted and Talented International, a member of the Association for the Study of Primary Education, British Educational Research Association, American Educational Research Association, Phi Delta Kappa, and, since 2001, have had an entry in Who's Who as an educationalist. Since 1987 I have directed some twenty-five research projects, amounting to roughly £2.3 million
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RESEARCH PROJECTSI am currently working on a book with Laura Mazzoli Smith arising from Laura's PhD, investigating how working class families understand, and are affected by, policy on gifted education. It is due out in Summer 2012, to be published by Sense publishers. Together with Laura, I am writing an article for Gifted and Talented International, critiquing the way Westernised conceptions of giftedness have exercised dominance in the giftedness field, and arguing for a more culturally sensitive research paradigm. I have published two critiques of the Cambridge Primary Review, (see the publications list below) arguing that it missed an opportunity to influence policy, and that its treatment of curriculum and pedagogy was deeply flawed. I continue to write and lecture on this topic. With Professor David Burghes, (Univeristy of Plymouth), I am researching international dimensions to the training of mathematics teacher. |
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