Institute of Education London

Professor Dominic Wyse

• • LTCL; LRAM; GRSM (Hons); PGTC; MPhil; PhD; MA (Cantab)
  • Professor of Early Childhood and Primary Education
• Faculty:
  • Faculty of Children and Learning
• Department:
  • Early Years and Primary Education
• Summary:
  • The main focus of my research is curriculum and pedagogy. Key areas of my work are the teaching of English, language, literacy, and creativity. In addition to research in these areas I have extensive experience in music including a position as the first Director of Music-Making at Churchill College Cambridge where I was also a Fellow. Prior to joining the IOE I was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, A Reader at Liverpool John Moores University, and a teacher with experience working in London, Bradford and Huddersfield.
• Teaching:
  • PhD Supervision
    Early years and primary master's courses
• Research:
  • Current (selected)
    • Engaging Young Writers - Developing Writing: An Evaluation of the Ministry of Stories (with Andrew Burn, John Hardcastle, John Potter, Chris Richards, Graham Welch). Ministry of Stories.
    • Museums and Education (MUSE): Art, Curriculum and Pedagogy. Evaluation of National Roll Out of Picture in Focus. National Gallery, London.
    • Evaluation of the early literacy intervention The Ant Club (with Olga Cara, Jon Swain, Brian Creese, and Sophia Diamantopoulou). Booktrust/DfE.
    • Creating the Curriculum: the aims of the Cambridge Primary Review in the context of national curriculum change in England (with Anne Robertson and Sophia Diamantopoulou). Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.
    • Pedagogy, Leadership, and the Teaching of English in Tanzanian Primary Schools (with Ciaran Sugrue and Alicia Fentiman). Centre for Commonwealth Education. Commonwealth Educational Trust.
    
    Past (selected)
    Museums and Education (MUSE): Paintings, Curriculum and Pedagogy. National Gallery.
    • Creativity and Innovation in Education in Europe (ICEAC project): Analysis of the role of Creativity and Innovation in school curricula in the EU27. Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) in collaboration with DG Education and Culture, Directorate.
    • Place-Based Identities through Reading and Writing (wREPLACE; with Maria Nikolajeva, Emma Charlton, Gabrielle Cliff Hodges, and Liz Taylor). University of Cambridge.
    • Museums and Literacy. Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA)/ Renaissance East of England (with Helen Bradford and Philip Stevenson).
    • Primary Education in Sub Saharan Africa. Aga Khan Foundation USA (with Helen Bradford).
    • Innovation and the Curriculum. Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA).
    • Research Consultant to the Cambridge Primary Review (with Harry Torrance and Elaine McCreery).
    • Evaluating Creative Partnerships. Manchester and Salford Creative Partnerships (with David Spendlove). The Arts Council.
    • Evaluating Creative Partnerships. Merseyside Creative Partnerships (with David Spendlove). The Arts Council.
    • Literacy Assessment in three African countries. Commissioned by the University of Liverpool. Department for International Development (DfID).
    • The Teaching of Grammar and Writing. Liverpool City Council.
    • Children's Rights in Primary and Secondary Schools in England. Liverpool John Moores University.
• Postgraduate Research:
  • I am interested in working with PhD students on curriculum (including national curricula) and pedagogy, particularly with a focus on the teaching of reading, writing or creativity
    
    Current Students
    Filio Constantinou. Bi-dialecticism and primary education in Cyprus. (Cambridge)
    IOE:
    Tomatha Alomari – formative assessment;
    Suhae An – English literacy in Korea;
    Helen Bradford – writing in the early years;
    Sameena Jamal – international primary baccalaureate;
    Zuriyatini Zainal – electronic and printed story books.
    
    Past Students (selected)
    2008 to 2012, Nitu Duggal. Investigation of Effectiveness of Approaches to Teaching Reading Comprehension;
    2008 to 2012, (with Paul Andrews). Phil Kirkman. Secondary Music Students' Compositional Development with Computer-Mediated Environments in Classroom Communities;
    2006 to 2010: Home Reading Programmes: Their Impact in English Speaking Countries and Potential for Use in India. Doctoral Study – Mihika Shah. Winner of the UKLA Best PhD Student Research Award.
• Professional Activities:
  • Editing
    2012 to present. Editor (with Louise Hayward, Steve Higgins and Kay Livingston) The Curriculum Journal.
    2008-2011. Associate Editor Cambridge Journal of Education
    Editor of The Routledge Understanding Primary Education book series.
    
    Editorial Boards
    Curriculum Journal
    Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies
    Cambridge Journal of Education
    Writing and Literacy
    
    Examining
    Wide range of experience from PhD to undergraduate
    
    Membership of Professional Bodies and Learned Societies
    Advisory Board Teach First.
    Editorial commissioning and advisory board (ECAB) Teacher Training Resource Bank (TTRB) (2007-2011)
    British Educational Research Association; United Kingdom Literacy Association.
• Conferences/presentations:
  • (Selected)
    • Wyse, D. (2012, 4 September) Teacher Agency and Curriculum Creation. Paper presented for the Learning from Curriculum Comparison across the UK keynote symposium, at The BERA annual conference, University of Manchester, Manchester.
    • Wyse, D. (2012, 12 March) Teaching English, language and literacy: From new theory to classroom practice. Invited presentation at Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU), Department of English, Beijing.
    • Wyse, D. (2012, 22 February) Teaching English, language and literacy: From new theory to classroom practice. Invited presentation at Queens University Belfast School of Education, Belfast.
    • Wyse, D. (2011, 25 October) Fonics, Phun and the Reading Wars. Invited presentation for the Cambridge Festival of Ideas, University of Cambridge, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, Cambridge.
    • Wyse, D. (2011, 30 September) Effective Teaching of English, Language and Literacy. Invited paper presented at the Inaugural Institute for Effective Education conference - Empowering educators with evidence, University of York, IEE, Berrick Saul Building, York.
    • Wyse, D., Fentiman, A., Sugrue, C., and Dachi, H. (2011, 13 September) Pedagogy and Leadership in Tanzania: A Whole School Approach presentation for the UKFIET International Conference on Education and Development - Global Challenges for Education: Economics, Environment and Emergency, The University of Oxford Examination Schools, Oxford.
    • Wyse, D. (2011, 6 September) The Public, the Personal, and the Teaching of English, Language and Literacy. Paper presented for the Great Literacy Debate: reflections on the impact and importance of The Literacy Strategy and The Framework for English keynote symposium, at The BERA annual conference, Institute of Education, London
    • Wyse, D. and Livingston, K. (2011, 7 September) Creating New Curricula Paper presented for the Cloning the Past or Creating the Future? Curriculum and Assessment across the United Kingdom symposium, at The BERA annual conference, Institute of Education, London
    • Wyse, D. (2010, 3 December) Towards a unified theory of English, language and literacy teaching, paper presented for the The Literacy Research Association: Old Wine/New Bottles? Or, a New Direction symposium at the Literacy Research Association (LRA formerly NRC) Annual conference, Fort Worth, Texas.
    • Wyse, D. (2010, 27 August) The Public, the Personal, and National Curricula: Reform in England 1988 to 2010, paper presented for the Curriculum Reform in Four Nations: A Home International Symposium at the European Educational Research Association (EERA) European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Helsinki.
    • Wyse, D. (2009, 4 November) Vision & Innovation – A New Primary Curriculum, Inaugural Annual Lecture for the Temple Grove Schools Trust, Hatcham College, London.
    • Wyse, D. (2009, 21 July) Contextualised Phonics Teaching. Presentation for the Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Learning to Read: Culture, Cognition and Pedagogy symposium at the 16th European Conference on Reading, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.
    • Wyse, D. (2008, 2 September). Who Decides What Primary Teachers need to Understand? Invited speech presented at the BAAL/Cambridge University Press Seminar Programme, Applied Linguistics: what do primary teachers need to understand? Developing an applied linguistics curriculum for pre-service primary school teachers., University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.
• Personal Country Knowledge:
  • Tanzania - Teaching of English in Primary Education
• Languages Spoken:
  • French – basic
• Languages Written:
  • French – basic