Marilyn Leask

Marilyn Leask
Born Marilyn Markwell
(1950-11-02) 2 November 1950[1]
Education

Diploma in Radiography - Australasian Institute of Radiologists and Radiographers;

BA (Open)

PGCE (Institute of Education,University of London now UCL IOE)

MPhil (Cambridge Institute of Education/UEA)

PhD (De Montfort University, UK)

Marilyn Leask is Professor of Education at De Montfort University having previously been Professor of Educational Knowledge Management at the University of Bedfordshire and a Professor at Brunel University. She is a trustee of the Education Futures Collaboration Charity[2] and the Bedford and Milton Keynes Waterway Trust.[3]

Leask specialises in the knowledge required for teaching,[4] knowledge management in education and in building the evidence and knowledge base for teacher education.[5] Classroom practice has developed from her research on digital technologies and teacher knowledge [6] [7][8][9] and how digital technologies can be harnessed to support lifelong learning for teachers.[10]

Leask co-chairs the Mapping Educational Specialist knowHow Knowledge mobilization and Translational research initiative in education.[11]

She is a specialist in: teacher education[12][13] [14][15] [16] whole system change,[17] improvement and development across large systems [18][19] particularly through online networking and knowledge sharing[20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28]

She is also an elected board member of the UK peak organisations the Council of Subject Associations[29] and the British Educational Research Association and was elected by peers to the peak organisation the Universities Council for the Education of Teachers[30] and the panel assessing UK university educational research in 2008 (RAE 2008[31]). This follows a career as a teacher, researcher, academic and government policy officer, author and series editor of the main textbooks used for secondary teacher training in the UK.

Professional background

As a government employee and Head of Effective Practices and Research Dissemination section in the UK agency responsible for teacher training she was engaged in a major government funded knowledge management initiative for the education sector, focused on harnessing the opportunities of digital technologies to provide access to the latest research-informed knowledge so as to improve teacher knowledge and learner outcomes by providing just in time access to collective knowledge about best practices. She initiated the Teacher Training Resource Bank [32] holding research-informed resources on many thousands of topics relevant to the training of teachers. She then went to the Improvement and Development Agency for local government[33] to develop and launch with Steve Dale, Michael Norton and Dimple Rathod online communities of practice for local government. This has become the Knowledge Hub for the public sector.[34]

Books

References

  1. ↑ "MARILYN LEASK - BEDFORD ENGLAND". checkcompany.co.uk. Retrieved 7 July 2015.
  2. ↑ "Contact Us". edfuturescollaboration.org.
  3. ↑ "AGM 2015 – Search continues for New B&MK Waterway Trust Directors". b-mkwaterway.org.uk.
  4. ↑ "Professional Knowledge". meshguides.org.
  5. ↑ CAPEL, S., LEASK, M. and TURNER, T. (7th edition 2016) Learning to Teach in the Secondary School. Abingdon: Routledge.
  6. ↑ LEASK, M. and PACHLER, N. (eds)( 3rd edition 2013). Teaching and Learning with ICT in the Secondary School. Abingdon: Routledge.
  7. ↑ YOUNIE, S. and LEASK, M. (2013) The Essential Guide to Teaching with Technologies. MK: Open University Press.
  8. ↑ LEASK, M. with DAWES, L. and LITCHFIELD, B. (2000) Keybytes for Teachers Evesham: Summerfield Publishing.
  9. ↑ LEASK, M. and MEADOWS, J. (eds). (2000) Learning to Teach with ICT in the Primary School. London: Routledge.
  10. ↑ "MESH Guides". meshguides.org.
  11. ↑ "Editorial Boards". meshguides.org.
  12. ↑ YOUNIE, S., LEASK, M. and BURDEN, K. (2014, 2nd edition) Teaching and Learning with ICT in the Primary School. Abingdon: Routledge.
  13. ↑ CAPEL, S., LEASK, M. and TURNER, T. (2009) Readings for Learning to Teach in the Secondary School. London: Routledge.
  14. ↑ YOUNIE, S., CAPEL, S. and LEASK M (2009) Supporting Teaching and Learning in the Secondary School: a companion for higher level teaching assistants’. London. Routledge.
  15. ↑ CAPEL, S., LEASK, M. and TURNER, T. (2nd edition 2004, 1996). Starting to Teach in the Secondary School. London: Routledge.
  16. ↑ LEASK, M. (ed.) (2001) Issues in Teaching with ICT. London: Routledge.
  17. ↑ 2013 with Younie, S. National models for CPD: the challenges of 21st C knowledge management, Professional Development in Education, 39 (2), 273-287.
  18. ↑ LEASK, M. and TERRELL, I. (1997). Development Planning and School Improvement for Middle Managers. London: Kogan Page.
  19. ↑ GODDARD, D. and LEASK, M. (1992). The Search for Quality: Planning for Improvement and Managing Change. London: Paul Chapman Publishing/Sage Publications.
  20. ↑ with Younie, S. Knowledge mobilisation to overcome the fragmentation between research and practice: MESH (Mapping Education Specialist knowHow) in Hudson, B. (due 2015) Fragmentation and Practice, Teacher Education Policy in Education in Europe
  21. ↑ 2012 Leask, M. Research Impact and Dissemination in a Connected world, in Arthur, J.et al Research Methods. Sage Publishing.
  22. ↑ 2011 Improving the Professional Knowledge Base for Education: using KM & Web 2.0 tools, Policy Futures in Education, 9(5), 644-660, for policy makers, edu. leaders, the development of approaches supporting evidence-informed policy and practice, and the use of digital technologies in education.
  23. ↑ 1996 ‘A History of Change’ translated into Chinese and published by the Open Learning Institute of Hong Kong.
  24. ↑ 1994 ‘Modular courses, assessment and student capability’. In JENKINS, A. and WALKER, L. (eds) Using Modularity to Develop Student Capability. London: Kogan Page, pp.49-55.
  25. ↑ 1992 ‘School Development Plans: their history and their potential’. In WALLACE, G. (Ed.) Local Management of Schools: Research and Experience. Clevedon: Avon: Multilingual Matters.
  26. ↑ 1991 contribution to Hargreaves D.H. and Hopkins D. The Empowered School London, Cassell.
  27. ↑ 1990 contribution to Thomas, H. and Kirkpatrick, G. Managing Resources: A self-study pack for school governors (audio tape) London: British Broadcasting Corporation.
  28. ↑ 1989 ‘Teacher-Evaluators - the Missing Link’. contribution to HOPKINS, D. Evaluation for Development. Milton Keynes: Open University Press, pp. 90-93.
  29. ↑ "The Council for Subject Associations". subjectassociation.org.uk.
  30. ↑ "Universities' Council for the Education of Teachers". ucet.ac.uk.
  31. ↑ "RAE 2008". rae.ac.uk.
  32. ↑ "[ARCHIVED CONTENT] Home - Teacher Training Resource Bank". nationalarchives.gov.uk.
  33. ↑ "[ARCHIVED CONTENT] Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA) : Directgov - Directories". nationalarchives.gov.uk.
  34. ↑ https://khub.net/
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