Professor Marilyn Osborn

Summary

• Home School Knowledge Exchange Project, Transfer Strand Director
• Systems, Teachers, and Educational Policy (STEP) (ESRC Funded)
• Quality in Experiences of Schooling Trans-Nationally (QUEST) (ESRC Funded)
• Education and National Culture: a comparative study of attitudes to secondary schooling (ENCOMPASS) (ESRC Funded)
• A study funded by QCA comparing primary school children's learning strategies in England and France
• Management of Human Resources in Education (EU)

Biography

Marilyn Osborn is professor of education and currently directs the Hong Kong EdD programme.  She was director of research from 2002 until 2005 and previously director of the MPhil/PhD programme.  For several years she also co-directed the Centre for International and Comparative Studies in Education.

She has led a number of ESRC funded international collaborative research projects and has published extensively in the area of teachers’ work and professional identity, pupil perspectives on learning, adult learning, comparative research and qualitative research in education.  She has also researched the role of home/school links in the process of transfer from primary to secondary school as part of the ESRC funded Home/School Knowledge Exchange Project.

She is on the editorial boards of a number of international journals, is a member of the European Network of Experts in Social Science of Education and Training, and is on the adjudication committee of an overseas Research Council.

Teaching

Apart from her supervision of research students, Marilyn teaches on the Doctor of Education programme in Hong Kong and sometimes contributes to the Doctor of Education programme in Bristol.

Keywords

• professional identity
• pupil perspectives on learning
• comparative education
• adult learning
• qualitative research

Skills

• European Network of Experts in Social Science of Education and Training (NESSE).
• British Association for International & Comparative Education (BAICE).
• British Educational Research Association (BERA).
• Comparative Education Society in Europe (CESE).

Memberships

Organisations

School of Education

Recent publications

• Osborn, M, 2010, ‘Two Case Studies from the UK’. in: the International Conference on Management of Human Resources in Education, Barcelona.
• Osborn, M, 2009, ‘Classroom assessment practice in policy context (England and France)’. in: M James (eds) International Encyclopaedia of Education. Amsterdam:Elsevier
• Osborn, M, 2009, ‘A lesson in progress: a comparison of classroom practice and pupil experience in England and France’. Revue International de education.
• Osborn, M, 2008, ‘Identite professionelle des enseignants’. in: A van Zanten (eds) Dictionnaire de l'education. Presses Universitaires de France, pp. 251 - 257
• Osborn, M, 2008, ‘Teacher professional identity under conditions of constraint’. in: D Johnson, R Maclean (eds) Teaching: Professionalisation, Development and Leadership. Springer, pp. 67 - 85
• Osborn, M, 2008, ‘Comparaison des systemes d'education’. in: A van Zanten (eds) Dictionnaire de l'education. Presses Universitaires de France, pp. 641 - 645
• Osborn, M, 2008, ‘Review symposium on Martyn Hammersley's Educational Research Evidence-based Practice’. British Journal of Educational Studies, vol 56., pp. 340 - 348
• Greenhough, P, Hughes, R, Andrews, J, Goldstein, H, McNess, E, Osborn, M, Pollard, A, Stinchcombe, V & Yee, W, 2007, ‘What effect does involving parents in knowledge exchange activities during transfer from Key Stage 2 to Key Stage 3 have on children’s attainment and learning dispositions?’. in: British Educational Research Association, University of London.
• Osborn, M, 2006, ‘Changing the Context of Teachers' Work and Professional Development: A European Perspective’. International Journal of Educational Research, vol 45, 4-5., pp. 242 - 253
• Osborn, M, McNess, E & Pollard, A, 2006, ‘Identity and transfer: a new focus for home-school knowledge exchange’. Educational Review, vol 58 (4)., pp. 415 - 433

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