The Appropriation of the Professionalisation Agenda in Teacher Education

Vol. 4. No. 2 Oct 2014

Diane Mayer is Professor of Education (Teacher Education) at the University of Oxford and Professorial Fellow of Harris Manchester College. Prior to joining Oxford, she was Professor of Education and Dean at The University of Sydney. She has also held positions at the University of California at Berkeley in the USA and at Victoria University, Deakin University and The University of Queensland in Australia. Diane's research and scholarship focuses on teacher education and early career teaching, examining issues associated with the policy and practice of teachers' work and teacher education. She has secured a range of research grants, tenders and consultancies to support this work and has published in a wide range of refereed journals and publications. She has been involved in 40 conference presentations and has delivered 30 invited keynote lectures and seminars in 9 countries. Diane has recently concluded 20 years as lead editor for the international peer reviewed journal, Teaching Education, and she on the Editorial Boards of Curriculum Perspectives, Journal of Education for Teaching: International research and pedagogy, and the European Journal of Teacher Education. She is currently editor for Teachers' Lives, Work and Professional Education one of the 14 volumes for the fourth edition of the International Encyclopaedia of Education (Elsevier).