Anna Traianou BA MPhil PhD
Anna is the Head of the MA in Education: Culture, Language and Identity. She teaches on the ECS, MA and PhD Programmes in her Department and leads the Qualitative Research Methods course for the Goldsmiths/Queen Mary, University of London, ESRC Doctoral Training Centre.
Research interests
Anna’s research interests include the nature of teacher expertise, and, in particular, the ways in which knowledge and learning are implicated in educational practice. Anna has also worked on the relationship between research evidence and practical wisdom exploring some of the problems facing any notion that effective teaching can simply be an application of the results of educational research. She has a particular interest in qualitative research methodology, professional identities and theories of science.Selected publications
Books
Traianou, A. (2006) Understanding Teacher Expertise in Primary Science: A Sociocultural Approach, Rotterdam: SENSE. ISBN-10: 90-77874-88-7, ISBN-13: 978-9077874882.
Traianou, A., & Hammersley, M. (forthcoming) Qualitative Research Ethics: Controversies and Contexts, London: SAGE.
Articles
Traianou, A. (2006). Understanding Teacher Expertise in Primary Science. Research Papers in Education, 21(1), 63-78. ISSN: 0267-1522
Traianou, A. (2006). Teachers’ Adequacy of Subject Knowledge: Assessing Constructivist Approaches from a Sociocultural Perspective. International Journal of Science Education, 28 (8), 827-842. ISSN: 0950-0693
Traianou, A. (2007). Ethnography and the perils of the single case: an example from the sociocultural analysis of primary science expertise. Ethnography and Education. 2 (2), 209-220 ISSN: 1745-7823.
Traianou, A., & Hammersley, M. (2008). Making science education evidenced-based? Reflections on a Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP) Study, Oxford Review of Education. 34(4), 461-481 ISSN: 0305-4985.
Traianou, A. & Hammersley, M. (2008) Making science education evidence-based? A brief reply to Millar, Leach, Osborne and Ratcliffe, Oxford Review of Education. 34(4), 489-492. ISSN: 0305-4985
Traianou, A. (2009) The uncertain Character of recent educational reforms in Greece, FORUM, 51 (2) 131-142. ISSN: 0963-8253
Hammersley, M, & Traianou, A. (2011) Moralism and Research Ethics: A Machiavellian perspective, International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 6, pp. 379-390.
Traianou, A. (2012) Science teaching: A dilemmatic approach, Ethnography and Education (special issue), 7 (2) ISSN: 1745-7823.Online Publications
Hammersley, M., & Traianou, A. (2007) Ethics and Educational Research, London: Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP) available at: http://www.tlrp.org/capacity/rm/wt/traianou/