Consultancy activities
The Faculty works extensively with schools and settings to provide a strong consultancy profile. Colleagues are selected to engage in consultancy activities as they are able to demonstrate a cutting edge approach to classroom and school based activities informed and underpinned by a research active approach.
Consultants engage in the full suite of school improvement activities that are available to schools and settings.
For further information contact Tim Rutter – Assistant Head of Professional Development – ruttert@edgehill.ac.uk
Current Consultancies Within the Faculty
Adult Literacy
Edge Hill has a strong and growing department of Post Compulsory Education and Training (PCET).
Vicky Duckworth is able to offer consultancy on adult literacy and other issues related to social inclusion and the opportunities for adults in post-compulsory education.
Vicky is a member of RaPAL, which campaigns for the rights of all adults to have access to the full range of literacies in their lives. It supports democratic practices in adult literacy work and its members believe that a learning democracy can only be achieved if teaching, learning and research are kept together. A dynamic relationship between research and practice keeps the meaning of literacy open and responsive to the variety of changing social contexts and practices that exist in our society’.
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Visit the RAPAL website
Music Education and Singing
Edge Hill’s Faculty of Education has a strong music department. Professor Martin Ashley is a leading authority on boys’ singing and a member of SingTank, the national advisory body for SingUp (the National Singing Programme). He is very happy to advise on the development of boys’ singing in schools, and on the recruitment and retention of boys to choirs. You can visit his consultancy page at http://www.martin-ashley.com/consultancy
Ian Shirley is editor of Primary Music Today and a tutor for Sing for Pleasure. He is happy to advise on all aspects of primary school music.
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