Peter Kelly

Job title: Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Learning Communities, School of Education (Faculty of Health, Education and Society)
Address: Room 108, Nancy Astor Building, Drake Circus,
Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
Telephone: +441752585437
Facsimile: +44 (0)1752 585437
Email: peter.kelly@plymouth.ac.uk

Role
Faculty Link Tutor for Zeist, Nederland, IMP (Europe)

Qualifications & background
PhD in Education (2000) awarded by Exeter University.

Teaching interests
EdD tutor and ‘Policy and Professional Practice’ EdD module leader; ‘Leading Learning’ IMP cross-professional pathway leader; lead and teach on cross-professional IMP modules with nurses, prison officers, police officers, social workers and teachers; organised (since their inception) the faculty’s annual Postgraduate Research and University Approved Tutor Conferences

Member of the University of Plymouth CPD Committee and the UCET CPD Committee

Research interests

Comparative education, social policy, workplace learning (public services); social theory; approaches to social research.

Publications

Gale, Ken, Wheeler, Steve and Kelly, Peter (2008) Learning in Cyberspace: An Examination of Changes in Professional Identity and Practice Style in an Online Problem-Based Learning Environment, Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 8(4), 297-307

Kelly, Peter (2007) The joy of enhancing children’s learning, in Hayes, Denis, (Ed) Joyful Teaching and Learning in the Primary School, Exeter, Learning Matters, 10-16

Kelly, Peter (2007) The joy of involving pupils in their own assessment, in Hayes, Denis, (Ed) Joyful Teaching and Learning in the Primary School, Exeter, Learning Matters, 130-135

Kelly, Peter, Gale, Ken and Wheeler, Steve (2007) Taking a stance: promoting deliberate action through online Postgraduate Professional Development, Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 16(1), 153-176

Pratt, Nick & Kelly, Peter (2007) Mapping mathematical communities: classrooms, research communities and masterclasses, For the Learning of Mathematics, 27(2), 34-39

Kelly, Peter, Berry, John and Battersby, Derek (2007) Developing teacher expertise: teachers and students doing mathematics together, Journal of In-Service Education, 33(1), 41-65

Kelly, Peter (2006) What is teacher learning? A socio-cultural perspective, Oxford Review of Education 32 (4), 505-519

Kelly, Peter (2006) Organising your classroom for learning, in James Arthur, Teresa Grainger and David Wray (Eds) Learning to Teach in the Primary School, London, Routledge, 136-146

Kelly, Peter (2005) Using thinking skills in the primary classroom, London, SAGE

Wheeler, Steve, Kelly, Peter and Gale, Ken (2005) The influence of online problem-based learning on teachers’ professional practice and identity, ALT-J, Research in Learning Technology 13 (2), 125–137

Kelly, Peter (2004) Children’s experiences of mathematics, in Olwen McNamara and Richard Barwell (Eds) Research in Mathematics Education Volume 6, London, BSRLM, 37-57

Kelly, Peter (2003) It’s not only scientists who use science! Primary Science Review 79, 23-25

Kelly, Peter (2002) Does numeracy in school lead to numeracy out of school? MT 180, 37-39

Kelly, Peter (2002) Authentic enquiry in the classroom, Teaching Thinking (Spring 2002), 38-41