Prof. Derek Glover

Title: Honorary Professor
Phone: 01782 734338 or 01782 733126
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Location: Chancellor's Building : CBA 2.050
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Derek was a student at LSE and then undertook a research degree at Reading whilst teaching in Middlesex and Wiltshire. He was for 18 years head of Burford School and Community College, Oxfordshire and completed his Ph.D with the Open University in 1992. He then changed direction and has worked with the Keele Department as a part-time member of staff involved with a variety of teaching and research projects. He was appointed an honorary professor in 1999 and also undertakes work as a visiting research assistant with London, Lincoln and Leicester Universities. He was visiting professor at Nottingham Trent University between 1997 and 2002.

Application of commercial sector ideas to the world of education and he is particularly interested in: community perceptions of schools; in the reality of teaching and learning for distance students (with Dr. Marianne Coleman at London University); in leadership issues ( with Prof. Tony Bush at Lincoln University ; in resource management issues (with Prof. Ros Levacic at the London Institute), and in the impact of national policy on practice in schools, especially the introduction of new technologies (with David Miller, Keele).

He has published extensively over the past decade and recently co-authored 'Educational Leadership and Learning' with Sue Law. A further volume on Improving Teaching and Learning was published in 2003.

Published 2003

  • With Levacic, R. (2003) Investigating effective resource management in secondary schools in Wallace,M. and Poulson,L. Learning to read critically in educational leadership and management, London, Sage
  • With Miller, D.. (2003) ' Players in the management of change: the introduction of IAW technology into schools' Management in Education, 17 (1: 20-23)
  • With Bush, T.. (2003), Leadership Development: Evidence and Beliefs, Nottingham, National College for School Leadership

Published 2002

  • With Law, S. ( 2002) Improving Learning. Buckingham, Open University Press
  • With Miller, D.J. (2002) The Introduction of Interactive Whiteboards into Schools in the United Kingdom: Leaders, Led, and the Management of Pedagogic and Technological Change in International electronic journal for leadership in learning, 6, (No 24), http://www.ucalgary.ca/~iejll/volume6/glover.html (University of Calgary Press), ISSN 1206-9620
  • With Miller, D.J. (2002) The interactive whiteboard as a force for pedagogic change: the experience of five elementary schools in an English education authority, in Information Technology in Childhood Education Vol. 2002 Issue 1: AACE Digital Library
  • With Bush, T. (2002) 'Concepts of leadership in school contexts' A Report for the National College of School Leadership: University of Reading
  • With Bush, T., (2002), Final Report to the National College for School Leadership, Nottingham, National College for School Leadership.
  • With Sue Law and Andrea Youngman, (2002) Graduateness and employability: student perceptions of the personal outcomes of university education' Research in Post-compulsory Education 7 (3) 293-306

Published 2001

  • With Law, S. 'Perceptions of pressure: external and internal influences on secondary school policy making directed at teaching and learning' Westminster Studies in Education, March 2001
  • With Sue Law. ' Conforming to standards for Headship' in Journal of In-Service Education, 27 ( 1) ,2001 pp. 95 -107
  • With Sue Law 'Challenge and response in teaching and learning'. Managing Schools To-day, May, June , July, 2001
  • With Sue Law 'For now, or all time? Student understanding of key skills in the curriculum' Management in Education 15 (3) (2001) pp. 18-21
  • With Miller, D. 'Running with technology: the pedagogic impact of the large scale introduction of interactive whiteboards' Journal of Information Technology for Teacher Education 10 (3) pp. 257-267 2001

Published 2000

  • Glover D, Law S Educational Leadership and Learning Open University Press, Milton Keynes
  • Financial management and strategic planning. Managing Finances and Resources in Education (Ed M Coleman and L Anderson) Paul Chapman, London
  • The introduction of key skills into schools: core or casualty? Journal of Vocational Education and Training 52.1
  • Glover D, Johnson M, Gough G Bullying in 25 secondary schools: incidence, impact, and intervention Educational Research 42.2
  • Glover D, Bennett N, Crawford M, Levacic R The reality of school development planning in the effective primary school: technicist or guiding plan? School Leadership and Management 20.3
  • Glover D, Miller D J, Johnson M, Watson R Waiting in the wings: the career entry profile for NQTs Professional Development Today 4.1

Published 1999

  • Law S, Glover D, Does OFSTED make a difference? Inspection issues and socially deprived schools. An Inspector Calls (Ed C Cullingford) Kogan Page, London
  • Levacic R, Glover D, Bennett N, Crawford M, Modern headship for the rationally managed school Educational Management: redefining theory, policy and practice (Ed T Bush et.al) Open University Press, Milton Keynes
  • Glover D, Miller D Leading the troops: assessing the quality of subject leaders Journal of Management in Education 13.2
  • Glover D, Miller D The working day of the subject leader and the impact of interruptions on Teaching and learning in schools Journal of Education Research 41.3
  • Miller D, Glover D, Gambling M, Gough G, Johnson M As others see us: senior management and subject staff perceptions of the work effectiveness of subject leaders in secondary schools School Leadership and Management 19.3

Masters

Distance learning dissertation support