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Welcome
TLRP is committed to sharing research findings worldwide and to international collaboration.
Since 2000, we have developed links with national education research programmes and related institutions that also wish to internationalise their research. The map illustrates our existing partnerships and also features organisations which we know share similar commitments.
TLRP welcomes further knowledge exchange activity. At present we are particularly interested in developing links with relevant parties in the Middle East, Asia, Africa and South America.
If you are interested and/or would like to see your institution featured here, please get in touch with Mabel Encinas, International Liaison Researcher.
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World Education Research Association
This part of the TLRP site is also providing a portal service for a new collaborative initiative exploring the formation of an international organisation for education research associations. Initial discussions took place during 2007 in Chicago and London. They will continue at AERA, New York in 2008. Participating associations are featured on these pages and can be accessed using the map or by scrolling.
TLRP is also providing a virtual research environment, 'Associating Associations', to facilitate this emerging international network. Using SAKAI technology, the VRE enables researchers based in different parts of the world to communicate flexibly and cost-effectively. Members can access the VRE at: http://groups.tlrp.org/portal
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Africa (multiple country organisations)
Bureau d'Etudes et Recherches Appliquees en Afrique (BERADA) or Association for Applied Research in Africa. Established in 1988, BERADA is a national research association (nongovernmental organization) recognized by the government of Mali whose purpose is to conduct educational research that supports social, cultural, and economic development in Africa.
BERADA represents a network of local and regional indigenous researchers and research associations in West Africa that includes:
- Askya Mohammed Center for Education and Research (Gao, Mali)
- Association pour le Developpement de l'Art et de la Culture Songhoy (Association for the Development of Songhoy Art and Culture) includes affiliated researchers and research associations in more than 10 African countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Egypt, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan and Togo, as well as Saudi Arabia)
- Association pour le Developpement Sahelo-Sahelien (Sahel and Sahara Development Association - a regional educational and research organization for economic and social development in West Africa Bamako, Mali)
The organization can be contacted via
Hassimi O. Maiga, Phd,
Founding President & Director of Research (songhoy@yahoo.com)
Details about the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) can be found on their website.
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South Africa
The Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) in South Africa supports development in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and Africa. The ESSD conducts research in the social domains of education, the world of work and science and innovation studies.
The programme examines the role of education and skills development in fulfilling national knowledge and skills requirements in a competitive global system. The research scope spans the lifecourse, from early childhood development to higher education and the world of work.
Four broad fields of enquiry are examined in the programme’s work, including:
- Education and work: Pathways from school to institutions of further and higher learning and to the world of work.
- Education and school improvement: Critical issues in curriculum, assessment and teacher development, particularly, mathematics and science, language and literacy.
- Science studies: Development of human resources and research and development (R&D) capability for a national system of innovation.
- Educational research methodologies: Applying data analytic abilities in educational assessment, labour market statistics and education management information systems (EMIS).
TLRP Director, Andrew Pollard met with the Executive Director of HSRC’s Education, Science and Skills Development research programme (ESSD), Vijay Reddy, in London in December 2007 to discuss educational developments in South Africa and the possibilities for further collaborative efforts between TLRP and HSRC. TLRP Associate Director, Alan Brown also met with Vijay in South Africa to discuss research developments on workbased learning. Further talks are scheduled to take place in 2008 with TLRP's Deputy Director, Mary James.
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Asia-Pacific (multiple country organisations)
Asia-Pacific Educational Research Association (APERA) is one of the group of national research organizations which are exploring ways of deepening international liaison to promote educational research, TLRP is contributing to this process as part of its commitment to knowledge accumulation across the world.
TLRP is hoping to arrange a joint event with APERA during 2008.
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Australia
The Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) is one of the group of national research organizations which are exploring ways of deepening international liaison to promote educational research, TLRP is contributing to this process as part of its commitment to knowledge accumulation across the world.
http://www.aare.edu.au/index.htm
Andrew Pollard and Mary James represented BERA at the November 2006 conference of the Australian Association for Research in Education. Meeting in Adelaide on the theme of ‘Engaging Pedagogies’, the event brought together researchers from across Australia and the region.
The BERA TLRP session was attended by members of the Australian Research Directors’ Network and there was lively discussion of the Programme’s commitment to research quality and impact – issues which are important in Australia in the context of the Research Quality Framework (RQF) for research assessment and funding, details of which have recently been announced.
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Austria
Details about the Austrian Society for Research and Development in Education (OEFEB) can be found on their website.
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Belgium
The Flemish Educational Research Forum (VFO) is one of the group of national research organizations which are exploring ways of deepening international liaison to promote educational research, TLRP is contributing to this process as part of its commitment to knowledge accumulation across the world.
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Brazil
Associação Brasiliera de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Educação (ANPED) is one of the group of national research organizations which are exploring ways of deepening international liaison to promote educational research, TLRP is contributing to this process as part of its commitment to knowledge accumulation across the world.
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Canada
In May 2008, the Consulting Pupils about Teaching and Learning team was asked to advise the Ontario Ministry of Education about ways to promote greater student participation and monitor its impact on achievement, in the province’s highly dispersed school system.
The Ministry is engaged in systematically gathering evidence making explicit the connection between consulting with students and achievement. The TLRP’s Consulting Pupils project, which was led by the late Jean Rudduck, has shown that greater participation helps pupils feel a stronger sense of belonging and belief in their own abilities as learners.
More information on Consulting Pupils about Teaching and Learning: http://www.tlrp.org/proj/phase1/phase1dsept.html
Many Canadian universities are now hosting research around teaching and learning, since the interests of many Canadian scholars also lie in understanding questions of educational quality, learning processes and pedagogical practices. Since TLRP has a stronger focus on teaching and learning outcomes through personalised learning, we wish to develop a broader basis for understanding by drawing on North American scholarship. This would enhance our current research profile and thematic development on social diversity and achievements in learning. Miriam David was a Visiting Fellow in the Spring of 2007, promoting and enhancing the analyses and disseminating the TLRP findings, specifically on the theme of Social Diversity in Teaching and Learning: new understandings about closing the achievement gaps across the life course. The North American emphasis has a complementary focus on achievement gaps primarily in relation to poverty and ethnicity/race and aspects of diversity through changing demographic patterns, migration and family forms.
The biggest Canadian research institute in education is The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto (OISE/UT) with two departments that do most of the work in this area, namely Sociology & Equity Studies and Theory and Policy Studies. Miriam visited OISE on the invitation of the Dean (Professor Jane Gaskell), to work with Professors Acker (SES) and Nina Baskia (TPS).
The Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE) is one of the group of national research organizations which are exploring ways of deepening international liaison to promote educational research, TLRP is contributing to this process as part of its commitment to knowledge accumulation across the world.
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Chile
On August 9th 2006 Professor Miriam David of the TLRP Directors' Team gave a talk about TLRP to a joint seminar between education and the sciences at the University of Santiago.
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Czech Republic
Details about the Czech Educational Research Association (CAPV) can be found on their website.
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Estonia
Details about The Estonian Educational Forum (EEF) can be found on their website.
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Europe (multiple country organisations)
TLRP's Technology Enhanced Learning Phase is associated closely with developments of the European Network of Excellence that is emerging out of the Kaleidoscope and ProLearn networks. TLRP TEL Director Richard Noss was a Kaleidoscope founder and Deputy Scientific Manager until 2006. An arrangement that will create synergies between the TeLearn archive and TLRP D-Space is currently being pursued.
The European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI) is one of the group of national research organizations which are exploring ways of deepening international liaison to promote educational research, TLRP is contributing to this process as part of its commitment to knowledge accumulation across the world.
The European Educational Research Association (EERA) is one of the group of national research organizations which are exploring ways of deepening international liaison to promote educational research, TLRP is contributing to this process as part of its commitment to knowledge accumulation across the world.
Nordic Educational Research Association (NERA) is one of the group of national research organizations which are exploring ways of deepening international liaison to promote educational research, TLRP is contributing to this process as part of its commitment to knowledge accumulation across the world.
Pedagogical and Educational Research Information Network For Europe (PERINE) was funded by the European Commission and provides an excellent example of the type of infrastructure needed for the exchange of knowledge beyond language barriers. TLRP strongly supports the concept.
John Brennan, leader of the 'Social and organisational mediation of university learning' project' (SOMUL) chairs a conference of the European Science Foundation (ESF) in September 2007 in Sweden. Full information.
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Finland
Finland has a national educational research programme that is broadly complementary with TLRP. The Academy of Finland 's Life as Learning (LEARN) Research Programme started in 2002. The programme focused upon the reinterpretation of lifelong learning and the reinterpretation of work-related learning.
30 March 2007 saw representatives of the TLRP Thematic Seminar Series on Education and Neuroscience participate in a seminar with colleagues in Finland. See here for more details.
Details about the Finnish Educational Research Association (FERA) can be found on their website.
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France
On 14 May 2009 the French National Institute of Pedagogy will hold an international seminar entitled: ‘Nouveaux espaces, nouveaux temps éducatifs: nouveaux rôles pour les acteurs de l’éducation’ featuring an opening lecture by the TLRP TEL Associate Director, Professor Richard Noss.
More information: http://eductice.inrp.fr
The Institut national de recherche pédagogique (INRP) has engaged with TLRP in a range of collaborative activities. INRP works in partnership with a wide range of organisations in order to contribute to the development of research in education on a national scale. INRP's current research activity is particularly focused upon learning processes; changes in the education system; and the development of teaching knowledge and professionalism.
Details about the Association des Enseignants et chercheurs en Sciences de l'Education (AECSE) can be found on their website.
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Germany
TLRP Director Andrew Pollard sits on the Academic Advisory Council for the Zentrum fur Schul- und Bildungsforschung (Centre for School and Educational Research) (ZSB)) based at the Martin Luther Universitat, Halle-Wittenburg.
TLRP recognizes the interests it shares with the German Institute for International Educational Research (DIPF) for both research on the quality of national educational systems and the distribution of research knowledge. Eckhard Klieme has met with Andrew Pollard to discuss collaboration.
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India
Dr Chris Hockings and Sandra Cooke of the Diversity and Difference project that forms part of the Widening Participation in Higher Education phase visited India on 26-28th March.
Chris and Sandra, from the universities of Wolverhampton and Birmingham respectively, took part in a seminar entitled "Policy Dialogue: Widening Access and Social Inclusion in Higher Education" organised by the UK-India Education and Research Initiative.
Dr Hockings said, "We have made many contacts with colleagues in Indian universities who are doing research in various aspects of Widening Participation in HE in India and with whom there is great potential for future collaborations".
Detailed report on the trip.
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Israel
In February 2007 TLRP Director Professor Andrew Pollard met with Dr Avital Darmon of The Initiative for Applied Education Research at The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities to discuss plans for a possible educational research programme along the lines of TLRP. The plans are being looked at in association with the Israel Ministry of Education and the Rothschild Foundation.
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Korea
Professor Donald Christie from the University of Strathclyde, who led the TLRP project Supporting Group Work in Scottish Schools: Age and the Urban / Rural Divide, was invited to give a talk about his project within the context of the TLRP, at the International Seminar organised for celebrating the 10th Anniversary of Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation (KICE), in September 2008. Being held in Seoul, the Seminar’s theme is the Improvement of School Education in the 21st Century.
KICE is a leading government-funded research institute for curriculum and educational evaluation research and development for primary and secondary schools. KICE is also the front runner for developing teaching and learning methods in Korea.
Find more information about Professor Christie’s work at: http://www.tlrp.org/proj/phase111/Scot_extb.html and http://www.strath.ac.uk/cps/staff/christiedonaldprof
For more information about KICE, please visit: http://www.kice.re.kr/kice/eng/index.jsp
The Korean Society for the Study of Education (KSSE) is one of the group of national research organizations which are exploring ways of deepening international liaison to promote educational research, TLRP is contributing to this process as part of its commitment to knowledge accumulation across the world.
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Lithuania
Details about the Lithuanian Academic Educational Association (LERA) can be found on their website.
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Mexico
The Consejo Mexicano de Investigacion Educativa (COMIE) is one of the groups of national research organizations which are exploring ways of deepening international liaison to promote educational research. TLRP is contributing to this process as part of its commitment to knowledge accumulation across the world.
More on COMIE (pdf).
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Netherlands
The Programme Council for Educational Research (PROO) of the Dutch Research Council (NWO) is a new programme focussing on three broad research areas. These include; educational learning processes and their yield; educational personnel and the pedagogic function of education. It is hoped that the programme will contribute to the internationalisation of educational research.
TLRP and The PROO are working towards engaging in collaborative discussions on the processes of programming, research and the dissemination and implementation of research findings. In June, TLRP Director, Andrew Pollard attended the workshop, Schooling for Tomorrow in The Hague where he discussed the issue of research outcome dissemination with Alfred Wald, PROO's Information Officer.
Further plans for collaborative work between TLRP and The PROO are scheduled to take place in April 2008 at AERA in New York.
Details about the Netherlands Educational Research Association (NERA) can be found on their website.
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New Zealand
In December 2006 TLRP Directors Professors Andrew Pollard and Mary James met with colleagues from the New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZER), the Ministry of Education and a number of local universities.
There was particular interest in TLRP because of New Zealand’s own Teaching and Learning Research Initiative (TLRI). Having succeeded in its project-development phase TLRI is considering a new thematic strategy and there are a number of similarities between the programmes. The TLRP Commentary on Teaching and Learning, offering ten synoptic ‘principles’, was considered and the research development strategies used by TLRP were discussed at length both at the seminar and in later detailed talks.
Among the colleagues attending these talks were Robyn Baker, Director of NZCER and TLRI, and Lynne Whitney from the NZ Ministry of Education.
TLRP has particular links to the University of Waikato School of Educational Research where the Dean has encouraged liaison opportunities which it is hoped that TLRP teams will take up in future.
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Norway
Norway has a national educational research programme that is broadly complementary with TLRP. The Norwegian Research Council Division for Culture and Society programme is on Knowledge, Education and Learning. The programme focuses on research on learning in education, the labour market and society in general.
One of the projects in the Norwegian programme (PROLEARN) was explicitly designed to mirror the approach of the TLRP Early Career Learning project and, as such, is an example of purposive bilateral co-operation. The PROLEARN project traces the early career development of nurses, teachers, accountants and engineers.
In June 2006 Professor Andrew Pollard visited Oslo to deliver a conference keynote speech entitled "TLRP: a UK adventure in coordinated research for evidence-based policy and practice in education”.
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Portugal
Nuno Araújo, (PhD student in the University of Coimbra’s Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences in Portugal), leads Project apaa (Assessment for Learning) which utilises TLRP’s LHTL project findings on assessment for learning to examine their effect on student achievement and teacher practice in a Brazilian context.
The project will run over the course of four years and is structured by five main components including, Theories of Assessment for Learning; A Taxonomical Revision; The Practice; A Model for Instructional Innovation; An Empirical Study.
It is hoped that the project’s conclusions will lead to the application of assessment for learning principles to improve teaching and learning in Brazil and Portugal.
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Republic of Ireland
The Educational Studies Association of Ireland (ESAI) is one of the group of national research organizations which are exploring ways of deepening international liaison to promote educational research, TLRP is contributing to this process as part of its commitment to knowledge accumulation across the world.
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Singapore
The Educational Research Association of Singapore (ERAS) is one of the group of national research organizations which are exploring ways of deepening international liaison to promote educational research, TLRP is contributing to this process as part of its commitment to knowledge accumulation across the world.
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Slovakia
Details about the Slovak Educational (research) Society (SERS) can be found on their website.
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Spain
Details about the The Asociacion Interuniversitaria de Investigacion Pedagogica (AIDIPE) can be found on their website.
Details about the Sociedad Espanola de Pedagogia can be found on their website.
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Sweden
The Swedish Government set up the Committee for Educational Science (CES) as a special expert body of the Swedish Research Council with a focus on research on learning, knowledge formation, education and teaching. The CES has a temporary mandate up to year-end 2008.
In October 2006 Andrew Pollard delivered a keynote speech on TLRP to the Swedish Research Council's Educational Sciences Annual conference.
In December 2006 a delegation of researchers from the Swedish Research Council Committee for Educational Sciences visited TLRP headquarters in London on 4th December on a fact finding trip to hear about TLRP.
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Switzerland
The Swiss Society for Research in Education (SSRE) is one of the group of national research organizations which are exploring ways of deepening international liaison to promote educational research, TLRP is contributing to this process as part of its commitment to knowledge accumulation across the world.
Andrew Pollard was a member of the CERI OECD team which conducted a 2006 external assessment of educational research in Switzerland.
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USA
Many US universties are now hosting research around teaching and learning, since the interests of many American scholars also lie in understanding questions of educational quality, learning processes and pedagogical practices.
Since TLRP has a stronger focus on teaching and learning outcomes through personalised learning, we wish to develop a broader basis for understanding by drawing on North American scholarship. This would enhance our current research profile and thematic development on social diversity and achievements in learning.
Miriam David was a Visiting Fellow in the Spring of 2007 promoting and enhancing the analyses and disseminating the findings of TLRP, specifically on the theme of Social Diversity in Teaching and Learning: new understandings about closing the achievement gaps across the life course.
The North American emphasis has a complementary focus on achievement gaps primarily in relation to poverty and ethnicity/race and aspects of diversity through changing demographic patterns, migration and family forms. This is a major feature of the work of scholars at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 and the Faculty of Education University of Wisconsin-Madison.
HGSE has many scholars researching issues of social diversity in teaching and learning, but Miriam worked with particularly Professor Wendy Luttrell, Nancy Pforzheimer Aronson Associate Professor in Human Development and Education.
Gloria Ladson-Billings of the University of Wisconsin-Madison addressed these issues in her Presidential address to the American Educational Research Association (AERA) meeting in spring 2006 raising the question of understanding the achievement gaps in US schools. Clearly there is much to be learned from this approach to understanding social diversity in achievement gaps in learning. Ladson-Billings is one of several scholars in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and Education Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and others include Professors Michael Apple, Marianne Bloch, Michael Fultz, Michael Olneck, Tom Popkewitz and Amy Stambach.
American Educational Research Association (AERA) is one of the group of national research organizations which are exploring ways of deepening international liaison to promote educational research, TLRP is contributing to this process as part of its commitment to knowledge accumulation across the world.
Dr Richard Cox, Director of the TLRP 'Vicarious learning' project was been awarded a Visiting Fellowship in Summer 2007 under a collaborative scheme of the US Social Science Research Council and the UK Economic and Social Research Council. Full details.
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Worldwide
Details of the World Association for Educational Research (WAER) can be found on their website.
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