This partnership will accelerate the movement towards greater research use and research production within sixth form colleges, inspire individual teachers, staff, and leaders to run their own inquiries, and serve as a resource for college educators looking to incorporate insights from peer-reviewed research into their practice.
This work is being led at the association by Emma Fielding, Principal of
Richard Huish College in Taunton, Somerset who says:
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Increasing numbers of sixth form staff are actively engaged in research and inquiry but this learning has largely remained within individual college communities, where others can’t learn or benefit from it.
Working with Camtree to establish a 16-19 digital community for research conducted in colleges is a hugely exciting development and one which has the potential to provide a transformative resource for a sector where there is a comparative paucity of research for teachers and educators to drawn on.
As an open access global knowledge network, Camtree will enable us to begin showcasing the wealth of innovation and inquiry work which is happening across colleges and will hopefully inspire increasing numbers of educators to conduct research into their own practice and serve as a resource for college educators looking to incorporate insights from peer-reviewed research into their practice."
