Name Marilyn Leask | ||
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Full Name Marilyn Markwell Born November 2, 1950 (age 73) ( 1950-11-02 ) 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 (DMU) Books Teaching with Technologies: The Essential Guide | ||
Marilyn leask presenting at mirandamod poskole 2012
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 and the Bedford and Milton Keynes Waterway Trust.
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Leask specialises in the knowledge required for teaching, knowledge management in education and in building the evidence and knowledge base for teacher education. Classroom practice has developed from her research on digital technologies and teacher knowledge and how digital technologies can be harnessed to support lifelong learning for teachers.
Leask co-chairs the Mapping Educational Specialist knowHow Knowledge mobilization and Translational research initiative in education.
She is a specialist in: teacher education whole system change, improvement and development across large systems particularly through online networking and knowledge sharing
She is also an elected board member of the UK peak organisations the Council of Subject Associations and the British Educational Research Association and was elected by peers to the peak organisation the Universities Council for the Education of Teachers and the panel assessing UK university educational research in 2008 (RAE 2008). 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 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 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.