Olwen McNamara
Professor of Teacher Education and Development
Main research interests:
Initial and continuing teacher development with a particular interest in mathematics education
Main teaching interests:
Director of Primary PGCE Programme
Selected recent publications:
Basit T, Roberts L, McNamara O, Carrington B, Maguire M & Woodrow D (2006) Did they jump or were they pushed? Reasons why minority ethnic trainees withdraw from Initial Teacher Training Courses, British Educational Research Journal, 32 (3): 387-410
Furlong J, Campbell A Lewis S, Howson J & McNamara O (2006) Partnership in Initial Teacher Education: Changing Times, Changing Definitions Evidence from the TTA National Partnership Project 37: 32-45
Brown T & McNamara O (2005) New teacher identity and regulative government: discursive formation of primary mathematics teacher education (New York, Springer).
Jones L & McNamara O (2004) The possibilities and constraints of multimedia as a basis for critical reflection, Cambridge Journal of Education, 34 (3): 279 296
Basit T & McNamara O (2004) Equal opportunities or affirmative action? The Induction of Newly Qualified Teachers, Journal of Education for Teachers, 30 (2): 97-115.
Campbell A, McNamara O & Gilroy P (2004) Practitioner Research and Professional Development in Education (London, Paul Chapman Publications).
Corbin B, McNamara O & Williams J (2003) Numeracy Co-ordinators: Brokering change within and between communities, British Journal of Educational Studies, 51 (4): 344-368.
McNamara O. (Ed.) (2002), Becoming an Evidence-based Practitioner (London, Routledge Falmer).
McNamara O, Roberts L, Basit T & Brown T (2002) Rites of Passage in Initial Teacher Training: Ritual, Performance, Ordeal and Numeracy Skills Tests, British Educational Research Journal, 28 (6 ): 861-876.
Stronach I, Corbin B, McNamara O, Stark S & Warne T (2002) Towards an Uncertain Politics of Professionalism: teacher and nurse identities in flux, Journal of Educational Policy, 17 (1): 109-138.
McNamara O & Corbin B (2001) Warranting Practices: Teachers Embedding the National Numeracy Strategy, British Journal of Educational Studies, 49 (3): 260-284.
McNamara O, Hustler D, Stronach I, Beresford E, Botcherby S & Rodrigo M (2000) Room to manoeuvre: mobilising the 'active partner' in home-school relations, British Educational Research Journal, 26 (5): 473-489.
Brown T, McNamara O, Jones L & Hanley U (1999), Primary student teachers' understanding of mathematics and its teaching, British Educational Research Journal, 25 (3): 299-322.
email : olwen.mcnamara@man.ac.uk