ROBIN ALEXANDER

Robin Alexander is Fellow of Wolfson College at the University of Cambridge, Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Warwick, and formerly Professor of Education at the University of Leeds.  Educated at the universities of Cambridge, Durham, London and Manchester, he has taught in schools, colleges and universities, has served on government advisory bodies and national enquiries in the UK, and has undertaken research, evaluation and consultancy in several other countries. His research and writing on education since the 1980s have covered policy, pedagogy, curriculum, evaluation, international comparative and cultural studies, primary education and teacher education. He has been consistently wary of professional and political orthodoxies, and his approach to the central educational questions of value, purpose, content and process remains radical. His 2001 book Culture and Pedagogy won top education book prizes on both sides of the Atlantic. From October 2006, Robin Alexander is directing The Primary Review, an independent enquiry into the condition and future of primary education in England.

For further information see Biographical details