Anne Convery

Contact

• workRoom C74 Dearing
  Jubilee Campus
  Wollaton Road
  Nottingham
  NG8 1BB
  UK
• work0115 951 4428
• fax0115 951 4599
• anne.convery@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Anne Convery taught French and German in secondary comprehensive schools for 10 years before joining the School of Education as a lecturer in 1991. She has contributed to the 1 year full-time PGCE since then, as well as being course leader for the two year part-time PGCE in Modern Languages in the 1990s. Anne was responsible for introducing Japanese as a language on the PGCE course in 1993, and since then over 80 teachers of the language have been trained, the majority of whom have gained employment as teachers of Japanese in the state secondary sector in the UK.

Anne was involved in a European Teacher Training Programme between 1992 and 2005, and coordinated the visit of student teachers to Nottingham from France, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and Portugal during this time under the Erasmus scheme. She also led an EU Socrates-funded series of Intensive Programmes (IPs), bringing student teachers from six different EU countries to work together with pupils in local schools. The IPs, to develop the themes of European and global citizenship, were held in Leipzig (1998), Vienna (1999), Groningen (2000), Angers (2002), Vienna (2003) and Lisbon (2004). The research she carried out at this time was part of her PhD thesis,completed in March 2002, entitled, "Changing attitudes to Europe: British Teacher Education and the European Dimension".

Anne is a member of the Unesco Centre for Comparative Education Research (UCCER), where she has acted as mentor to visiting scholars and chaired seminars at the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission research colloquia in 2004 and 2006. She teaches on MA and EdD programmes for the Centre and her research is located within it.

Research Summary

Anne's research interests include the European dimension, citizenship and teacher identity.

She is currently involved in two research projects. The first is a collaborative project with a colleague from the University of Pamukkale, Turkey, Dr Necla Koksal, which is a comparison of the standards and competences required of beginning teachers in England and Turkey. The first stage of the research was reported at the European Education Research Conference at the University of Vienna, in September 2009, in a paper entitled "Examining the usefulness of teacher standards and competences in England and Turkey: a comparative study amongst pre-service teachers". Anne and Necla hope to report on the second phase of their research at the EECR at the University of Helsinki in August 2010.

Anne's second project is also a comparative study to investigate the identities of beginning teachers in England, Ireland and Turkey. Data were gathered between February and June 2009 from a series of focus groups carried out with pre-service teachers in the Universities of Nottingham, Limerick and Pamukkale. Data analysis is currently being carried out, and an initial report will be presented at the EECR at the University of Helsinki in August 2010.

Recent Publications

• ATKIN, C and CONVERY, A., eds., 2008. Adult Learning in Lincolnshire and Rutland: voices from practice: Practitioner-led research projects. Volume 2. The University of Nottingham and the Learning and Skills Council.
• CONVERY, A.E. and KERR, K., 2007. Acting locally to have global impact: citizenship education in theory and practice in England Children's Social and Economics Education: An International Journal. 7(3),
• CONVERY, A.E., 2006. Student teacher attitudes to Europe: responses from policy to practice. In: POPOV, N., WOLHUTER, C., HELLER, C. and KYSILKA, M., eds., Comparative education and teacher training 4. Sofia, Bulgaria: Bureau for Educational Services under the auspices of the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society. 199-206
• CONVERY, A.E., 2006. Inspired by Vygotsky - Developing Teacher Autonomy

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Anne is a member of the Centre for Research in Schools and Communities. Her research supervision areas include:

• european dimension in education (identity, citizenship, culture)
• modern languages curriculum

Research proposals: please email Anne if you would like to discuss the appropriateness of your research topic. See also: School of Education research supervision areas.

• ATKIN, C and CONVERY, A., eds., 2008. Adult Learning in Lincolnshire and Rutland: voices from practice: Practitioner-led research projects. Volume 2. The University of Nottingham and the Learning and Skills Council.
• CONVERY, A.E. and KERR, K., 2007. Acting locally to have global impact: citizenship education in theory and practice in England Children's Social and Economics Education: An International Journal. 7(3),
• CONVERY, A.E., 2006. Student teacher attitudes to Europe: responses from policy to practice. In: POPOV, N., WOLHUTER, C., HELLER, C. and KYSILKA, M., eds., Comparative education and teacher training 4. Sofia, Bulgaria: Bureau for Educational Services under the auspices of the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society. 199-206
• CONVERY, A.E., 2006. Inspired by Vygotsky - Developing Teacher Autonomy
• CONVERY, A. and KERR, K., 2005. Exploring the European dimension in education: practitioners' attitudes European Education. 37(4), 22-34
• CONVERY, A.E., 2005. Review of The World Yearbook of Education 2005
• CONVERY, A.E., 2004. Report on Primary Japanese Teaching/Outreach, as experienced by University of Nottingham School of Education PGCE Graduates
• CONVERY, A., 2003. Managing differentiation in the modern languages classroom. In: JIMÉNEZ RAYA, M. and LAMB, T., eds., Differentiation in the modern languages classroom Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang AG. 113-123
• CONVERY, A.E., 2003. Review of A World of Difference? Comparing Learners Across Europe
• CONVERY, A.E. and COYLE, D., 1999. Differentiation and Individual Learners: A Guide for Classroom Practice Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research (CILT), London, UK.
• CONVERY, A., 1999. La dimension européenne. In: La dimension européenne dans l'enseignement: enjeux, réalités, perspectives Presses Universitaires de Nancy, Nancy, France. 13-24
• CONVERY, A.E., 1998. Multiculturalism and the European Dimension: Conflicting or Complementary Concepts? In: Proceedings of Anglo-Saxonica, Journal of the Centro de Estodos Anglisticos da Unversidade de Lisboa (CEAUL). 11-21
• CONVERY, ANNE, 1997. Pupils' perceptions of Europe : identity and education / Anne Convery ... [et al.] London : Cassell, 1997.
• CONVERY, A., EVANS, M., GREEN, S., MACARO, E. and MELLOR, J. J., 1997. An Investigative Study into Pupils' Perceptions of Europe Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. VOL 18(NUMBER 1), 1-16
• CONVERY, A., 1997. The case for the European Dimension Primary Geographer. 29(April), 4-6
• COYLE, D. and CONVERY, A.E., 1993. Measuring the development of student teacher IT capability during the PGCE course. In: Information Technology in Initial Teacher Education: The modern languages perspective University of York, York, UK. 35-58
• CONVERY, A.E. and COYLE, D., 1993. Differentiation - Taking the Initiative Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research (CILT), London, UK.
• CONVERY, A.E., 1993. Evaluation eines Studentenaustauschprogramms in der Lehrerausbildung - "Erwartungen und Realitat" In: Lehrerbildung in Europa - Europaische Lehrerbildung. 131-138
• CONVERY, A. and BISHOP, P., 1993. The European dimension in teacher education Language Learning Journal. VOL 7, 45