Professor Alex Moore

  • Qualifications and position:
    • BA, MA, PhD
    • Emeritus Professor
  • Faculty:
    • Faculty of Children and Learning
  • Department:
    • Department of Learning, Curriculum and Communication
  • Summary:
    • Having spent eighteen years as a secondary school teacher and ten years in initial teacher education, three of my main areas of interest are in the learning and experiences of beginning teachers; teachers' work; and young people's experiences of schooling. For the last eight years, I have developed more specific interests in curriculum studies - in particular, the nature and effects of cultural bias in school curricula - and education for citizenship. Methodologically, I have become increasingly interested in using psychosocial approaches to the analysis of research data.
  • Teaching:
    • Apart from doctoral supervisions, current teaching is mostly on the Doctoral School short course on the Application of Basil Bernstein's work in educational research.
  • Postgraduate Research:
    • Research interests: citizenship education; cultural bias in curriculum, pedagogy and assessment; inclusive education; teachers' work and experience; children's experiences of schooling. Current research students: Charles Keck - Humanising education for the 21st century: an evaluation of therapeutic tools in the development of school teachers in Mexico and Spain; Dean Alleyne - An investigation into the stories of high achieving black boys at a London school; Allan Wood - 'Beyond the Welcome Mat': students' and teachers' experiences and understandings of pedagogical inclusion in Health Professions courses in HE.
  • Conferences/presentations:
    • 'National - and international? - curricula: opportunities and challenges in times of instability and change'. Keynote lecture, International Conference on Social Change and Curriculum Reform, National Taiwan Normal University Nov.17 2006
      'Educating for citizenship: questions and issues for curriculum and pedagogy' Keynote lecture, 2nd Beijing International Forum on Citizenship Education' 21-24 October 2008, Beijing Academy of Educational Science;
      'Developments and issues in Initial Teacher Education' International expert presentation, Researching Teacher Education Symposium, Charles Sturt University Australia, 14-15 July 2008
  • Personal Country Knowledge:
    • China: curriculum studies, citizenship education.
      Taiwan: curriculum studies
      Hong Kong: curriculum studies
      Australia (NSW) Teacher Education
Professor Alex Moore

Contact details

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  • Address:
  • Department of Learning, Curriculum and Communication
    Institute of Education
    University of London
    20 Bedford Way
    London WC1H 0AL

  • Office Location:
  • Room 623B
    20 Bedford Way, WC1H 0AL

Publications

  • Moore, A. (2004) 'The Good Teacher': Dominant Discourses in Teaching and Teacher Education. London: RoutledgeFalmer.
  • Moore, A. (2000) Teaching and Learning: Pedagogy, Curriculum and Culture. London: RoutledgeFalmer.
  • Moore, A. (1999) Teaching Multicultured Students: Culturism and Anti-Culturism in School Classrooms. London: Falmer Press.
  • Moore, A. (2009) 'and learning under pressure: 'psychosocial' understandings of teacher experience and development' In O. Kwo (ed.), Teachers as Learners: Critical Discourse on Challenges and Opportunities. Kluwer-Springer and University of Hong Kong.
  • Moore, A. 'Curriculum as Culture: entitlement, bias and the Bourdieusian arbitrary' In A. Moore (ed.), Schooling, Society and Curriculum. London: Taylor and Francis.
  • Moore, A. (2006) 'Understanding the social self: the role and importance of reflexivity in schoolteachers' professional learning' In T. Townsend and R. Bates (eds), Teacher Education in Times of Change: Globalization, Standards and Professionalism. Kluwer-Springer.
  • Moore, A. (2005) 'Culture, Knowledge and Inclusion. What place for pluralism in the common curriculum?' In D. Halpin and P. Walsh (eds), Educational Commonplaces. London: Institute of Education.
  • Moore, A. (1999) 'Beyond Reflection: contingency, idiosyncrasy and reflexivity in initial teacher education' In M. Hammersley (ed.), Researching School Experience. London: Falmer Press.
  • Moore, A. (2005) 'Teaching, School Management and the Ideology of Pragmatism', International Studies in Sociology of Education 15, 3,
  • Moore, A. (2006) 'Recognising desire: a psychosocial approach to understanding education policy implementation and effect' ', Oxford Review of Education 32, 4,