| Location: | Arts E E332 |
| Email: | M.Eraut@sussex.ac.uk |
| Telephone numbers | |
| Internal: | 7794 |
| UK: | (01273) 877794 |
| International: | +44 1273 877794 |
Biography
Scholar at Trinity Hall, Cambridge 1959-62, BA PhD Cambridge; Fulbright Scholar at University of Illinois, Chicago,1965-7.Professor of Education, University of Sussex, since 1986. Director of Institute for Continuing and Professional Education 1986-91. Professor Emeritus from 2006.
My best known book, Developing Professional Knowledge and Competence (1994) has now been considerably updated by recent publications (see below). These cover pre-qualification, early career and mid-career learning and range over 12 professions; and include substantial research projects funded by the ESRC and the Departmemts of Education, Health and Employment. I was founder editor of the Blackwells journal Learning in Health and Social Care, 2002-6. I have currrent consultancy work with the University of Surrey (enhancing learning on student placements), Australian National University (preparation for legal practice) and the Royal College of Surgeons (training of specialist registrars).
Role
Professor EmeritusResearch
My interests are in the nature of professional knowledge, the epistemology of practical knowledge; enhancement of informal learning, initial and continuing education of managers, professionals and technicians; the relationship between theory and practice; learning organizations; and learning trajectories in a wide range of contexts. I am currently engaged in disseminating the findings of the ESRC/TLRP funded project Early Career Learning at Work: Project LiNEA (Learning in Nursing, Engineering and Accountancy), and in preparing publications related to the above.
Teaching
A few research students and contributions to the professional Doctorate Programme. A substantial programme of keynotes and seminars in 2007, across the UK and in Australia, Brasil, Denmark, and Norway.
Publications
Publications from 1993 to end of 2007
Books, monographs and major research reports
2007 (with W.Hirsh) The Significance of Workplace Learning for Individuals, Groups
and Organisations, SKOPE Monograph 9, Oxford University Department of
Economics, 96pp
2001 Evaluation of Higher Level S/NVQs (with Steadman S, James J), University of Sussex
Institute of Education, Research Report 9, 144 pp.
1999 Developing the Attributes of Medical Professional Judgment and Competence (with
Du Boulay B), Report to the Department of Health, 130 pp.
1998 Evaluation of Vocational Training of Science Graduates in the NHS, Project EVETSIN Final
Report (with Germain J, James J, Cole Y, Bowring S, Pearson J) University of Sussex Institute
of Education, Research Report 8, 86pp.
1997 Training of Pre-registration House Officers (with D Burrell, R Hall), Report to British Post-
Medical Federation, 83pp
1996 The Assessment of NVQs (with Steadman S, Trill J, Parkes J) University of Sussex Institute of
Education, Research Report 4, 73pp.
1995 Learning to Use Scientific Knowledge in Nursing and Midwifery Education (with J Alderton, A,
Boylan & A Wraight), English National Board. pp126
1995 Making School-Based INSET Effective (with S Steadman, C Nash & A Horton) University of
Sussex Institute of Education, Research Report 2, 132 pp
1994 Developing Professional Knowledge and Competence, Falmer Press, London.
1994 Ethics in Occupational Standards (with G Cole) Research and Development Series Report 22
Methods Strategy Unit, Employment Department, 64pp
1993 Assessing Competence in the Professions (with G Cole) Research and Development Series
Report 14, Methods Strategy Unit, Employment Department. Vol 1, 64pp; Vol 2, 254pp.
Chapters relevant to Professional Learning
2005 Professional Knowledge in Practice. In A Oriol & H Pardell (eds.) La Profesion Medica: Los
Retos del Milenio, Monografias humanitas, Fundacion Medicina y Humanidades Medicas,
Barcelona, (In Spanish), 47-67
2005 Factors affecting the transfer or sharing of good practice in schools, In WJ Nijhof & FM Loek
(Eds.) The Learning Potential of the Workplace, Proceedings International Research
Conference, University of Twente, The Netherlands, 113-128
2004 Deconstructing Apprenticeship Learning: What Factors affect its Quality? In RH Mulder & PFE
Sloane (eds) New Approaches to Vocational Education in Europe, Symposium Books, Oxford,
45-57
2004 Transfer of Knowledge between Education and Workplace Settings. In Rainbird H,
Fuller A and Munro A (eds) Workplace Learning in Context, Routledge, 201- 221
2004 Practice-Based Evidence. In G Thomas and R Pring (eds) Evidence-Based Practice, Open
University Press, 80-91
2002 (with J Alderton, G Cole, P Senker) Learning from other people at work. In R Harrison, F
Reeve, A Hanson & Clarke (eds) Supporting lifelong learning, Vol 1 Perspectives on Learning,
Open University with Routledge, London, 127-145
2002 (with J Alderton, G Cole, P Senker) The impact of the manager on learning in the
workplace. In F Reeve, M Cartwright & R Edwards (eds) Supporting lifelong learning, Vol 2,
Organising Learning, Open University with Routledge, London, 91-108
2001 Development of knowledge and skills at work (with Alderton J, Cole G, Senker P), in
Coffield F (Ed) Differing Visions of a Learning Society, Vol 1, Policy Press: Bristol, 231-262
2001 The interaction between qualifications and work-based learning. In K.Evans, P.,
Hodkinson & L.Unwin (eds) Working to Learn: Transforming Learning in the Workplace,
Kogan Page, London, 63-78
2001 Learning Challenges for Knowledge-based Organisations. In J Stevens (ed.) Workplace
Learning in Europe, ECLO/SKOPE/CIPD, 20-34
2001 Teachers Learning in the Workplace. In A Kesidou (ed) Continuing Teacher Education and
School Development, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54-68
2000 The Intuitive Practitioner: a critical overview, in Atkinson, T, Claxton, G (Eds) The Intuitive
Practitioner. Open University Press 253-268
1999 The Characterisation and Development of Professional Expertise in Education Management
and in Teaching.' In Strain, M et al (ed) Policy, Leadership and Professional Knowledge in
Education, Paul Chapman, London
1999 Headteachers' Knowledge, Practice and Mode of Cognition, in Bush T, Bell L, Bolam R and
Glatter R (Eds) Educational Management: Redefining Theory, Policy and Practice, Chapman,
114-126
1996 Developing the professions: training, quality, and accountability, in P Gordon (ed) The Study
of Education: Inaugural Lectures Vol 4. End of an Era? Woburn Press, 168-189
1996 Professional knowledge in teacher education, in Pirjo Nuutinen (ed) Inquiring Teacher - from
Experience to Pedagogy, Bulletins of the Faculty of Education , University of Joensuu, Finland,
64, 1-27
1995 Developing Professional Knowledge within a Client-Centred Orientation, in T R Guskey,
Huberman (eds) New Paradigms and Practices in Professional Development, New York,
Teachers College Press
1995 Outcomes and Professional Knowledge, in J Burke (ed) Outcomes, Learning and the
Curriculum. Falmer Press
1995 In-service teacher education, in L.Anderson (ed) The International Encyclopedia of Teaching
and Teacher Education, 2nd ed. Pergamon, 620-628
1994 Educational Technology: Conceptual Frameworks and Historical Development in T Husen, T
N Postlethwaite (eds) The International Encyclopedia of Education, 2nd ed. Pergamon Press.
1994 Indicators and accountability at the school and classroom level, in OECD/CERI Making
Education Count: Developing and Using International Indicators.
1994 The acquisition and use of educational theory by beginning teachers, in G Harvard and P
Hodkinson (eds) Action and Reflection in Teacher Education, Ablex Publishing Corporation.
1993 Teacher accountability: why is it central to teacher professional development, in L Kremer-
Hayon, H Vonk, R Fessler (eds) Teacher Professional Development: a Multiple Perspective
Approach, Swets & Zeitlinger, Amsterdam.
Journal articles linked to Professional Learning
2002-2006 20 editorials for Learning in Health and Social Care, Blackwells
2007 Early career learning at work and its implications for Higher Education, in Entwistle N &
Tomlinson P (Eds), Student learning and University Teaching, British Journal of Educational
Psychology, Monograph Series II no.4, 113-133
2007 Professional knowledge and learning at work, Knowledge, Work and Society, 45-62
2007 Learning from other people at work, Oxford Review of Education, 33 (4), 403-422
2005 Mapping the problems facing the New Surgical Curriculum, Ann R Coll Surg Engl (Suppl) 87,
246-250
2004 Workplace-Focused Learning: Perspectives on Continuing Professional Education
and Human Resource Development (with L Biererna), Advances in Developing Human
Resources, 6 (1) 52-68
2004 Informal Learning in the Workplace, Studies in Continuing Education, 26 (2), 247- 274
2002 Menus for Choosy Diners, Teachers and Teaching, 8, 3/4, 371-80
2001 The Role and Use of Vocational Qualifications, National Institute Economic Review, 178,
88-98
2001 Do CPD models promote one dimensional learning? Medical Education, 35, pp8-11
2000 Non-formal learning and tacit knowledge in professional work, British Journal of
Educational Psychology 70, 1, 113-136
2000 Teacher education, designed or framed, International Journal of Educational Research, 3, 5,
557- 574
1998 Concepts of Competence, Journal of Interprofessional Care, 12, 2, 127-139
1997 Perspectives on defining 'The Learning Society'. Journal of Education Policy, 12, 6, 551-558
1997 Curriculum Frameworks and Assumptions in 14-19 Education, Research in Post- Compulsory
Education, 2, 3, 281-297
1995 Schön Shock: a case for reframing reflection-in-action? Teachers and Teaching, 1, 1, 9-22
1995 Groupwork with Computers in British Primary Schools, Journal of Educational Computing
Research, 13, 1, 59-85.
Conference papers
2007 Theoretical and Practical Knowledge Revisited, EARLI conference, Budapest, pp 29
2005 Developing Responsibility (with Project LINEA team), AERA conference, Montreal
2005 Early Career Learning at Work: Methodology and Theoretical Frameworks (with
Project LINEA team), AERA conference, Montreal
2005 Typologies for investigating What is Learned in the Workplace and How? (with Project
LiNEA team), invited symposium, EARLI conference, pp 37
2005 An Analytical Tool for Characterising and Comparing Professional Workplace Learning
Environments, (with Project LiNEA team), EARLI conference, Nicosia, pp 40
2004 Learning in the Professional Workplace: Relationships between Learning Factors and
Contextual Factors (with Project LiNEA team), AERA, San Diego.
2004 Early Career Learning at Work- The LiNEA Project (with Project LINEA team), ESRC- TLRP
Annual Conference, Cardiff.
2003 Learning in the First Professional Job: the first year of full time employment after college for
Accountants, Engineers and Nurses (with Project LiNEA team), AERA, conference, Chicago
2003 Learning during the first three years of postgraduate employment- the LINEA Project (with
Project LiNEA team), EARLI conference, Padua
2002 Conceptual Analysis and Research Questions: Do the concepts of ‘learning community' and
‘community of practice' provide added value? AERA conference, New Orleans, 15pp
2001 The Vocational training of Scientists entering the UK National Health Service, AERA
conference, Seattle.