Teachers and Teaching

Elizabeth A.C. Rushton is Head of the Education Division at the University of Stirling, UK and Honorary Professor of Education at the Institute of Education, University College London, UK.Brian J. Johnston is Director of Initial Teacher Education at the University of Stirling, UK.Dr Andrea Priestley is a lecturer in Initial Teacher Education at the University of Stirling, UK.

• 1. Introduction, Elizabeth Rushton, Brian Johnston and Andrea Priestley (University of Stirling, UK)Part One: Key Ideas and Debates in Education2. What is Education? John I’Anson (University of Stirling, UK)3. Teaching in Troubled Times: A Posthumanist Approach to Education for Social Justice, Kay Sidebottom (University of Stirling, UK)4. Negotiating Education Policy and Professional Standards as a Teacher, Colin Meikle, (Craigmount High School, Edinburgh, UK) and Aileen Ireland (University of Stirling, UK)5. Decoloniality in Education: Context, Challenges and Practical Opportunities for Teachers and Teaching, Haira Gandolfi (University of Cambridge, UK) and Mélina Valdelièvre (Education Scotland, UK)6. Context-informed Anti-racist Education, Prof Emerita Rowena Arshad (University of Edinburgh, Scotland), Katie Hunter (St Thomas of Aquinas Roman Catholic High School, Edinburgh, Scotland ), Lena Carter (Former Joint Headteacher, Argyll and Bute Council, Scotland) and Hirra Mahmood (Glassary Primary School, Lochgilphead, Scotland)7. Children’s Rights and Agency, Dr Andrea Priestley and Brian Johnson (University of Stirling, UK), and Sophie Cathcart (University of Stirling, Scotland)Part Two: Teachers8. Teacher Identity and Teachers’ Professional Lives, Elizabeth Rushton (University of Stirling, UK), Emma Towers (King’s College London, UK) and Zoè Robertson (University of Edinburgh, UK)9. Agency: an essential prerequisite for effective teaching, Mark Priestley (University of Stirling, UK) 10. Leadership for Learning for Sustainability: Navigating Leadership Theories for Strategic Change in Scottish Education, Romina Madrid Miranda (University of Stirling, UK), Elizabeth Rushton (University of Stirling, UK) and Letizia Riddel (Auchenharvie Academy School, UK)11. Professional Learning in, through and from Critical Collaborative Professional Enquiry. Dr Valerie Drew, University of Stirling 12. More than human teachers, Lou Mycroft (Independent imbrication Researcher, UK) and Kay Sidebottom (University of Stirling, UK) Part Three: Teaching13. Teacher Agency, teacher subject knowledge and academic scholarship, Joseph Smith (University of Stirling, UK), Peggy Brunache (University of Glasgow, UK), Katherine Burns (University of Aberystwyth, UK), Katie Hunter (St Thomas Aquinas Roman Catholic High School, Edinburgh, UK), Diana Paton (University of Edinburgh, UK) and Christine Whyte (University of Glasgow, UK)14. Curriculum Making With/In Place: Place-responsive teaching and learning and the 'nature emergency', Greg Mannion (University of Stirling, UK)15. Teachers and Creativity, Barbara Schuler and Dr Maureen K. Michael (University of Stirling, UK)16. Play in its own right? A Swedish perspective, Katarina Ribaeus, Karolina Kjellberg, Janni Karlsson, Magdalena Raivio and Majvor Dahlgren Levin (Karlstad University, Sweden) 17. Using the outdoors to support inquiry-based learning: learning from experiences in Secondary school settings, Claire Ramjan (University of Glasgow, UK) and Ashley Fenwick (University of Stirling, UK) 18. Inclusion and Inclusive Practices: developing as inclusive educators in the 21st century, Di Cantali and Donna Dey (Dundee University, UK) 19. Crossing a bridge? navigating the sea? How metaphors might situate students transitions from Further to Higher Education, Dr Deborah O’Neill and Dr Sarah Galloway (University of Stirling, UK)20. Conclusion, Elizabeth Rushton, Brian Johnston and Dr Andrea Priestley (University of Stirling, UK)