Nurturing Professional Judgement

Ben Knight has been a teacher educator in higher education for the past 13 years and before that was a primary school teacher and senior leader in both suburban and inner-city schools for 11 years. Ben has relationships with a wide range of schools in rural and township locations in South Africa and is the founder and director of an education development partnership initiative. His research and publications reflect his interest in encouraging teachers and pre-service teachers to develop their professional instincts, judgement and intuition.

Ian Menter is former President of BERA, 2013-2015. At Oxford University Department of Education he was Director of Professional Programmes and led the development of the Oxford Education Deanery. Prior to that he was Professor of Teacher Education at the University of Glasgow and held posts at the University of the West of Scotland, London Metropolitan University, University of the West of England and the University of Gloucestershire. Ian was President of the Scottish Educational Research Association from 2005-07 and chaired the Research and Development Committee of the Universities' Council for the Education of Teachers (UCET) from 2008-11. He is a Visiting Professor at Bath Spa University and Ulster University and an Honorary Professor at the University of Exeter. Since 2018 he has been a Senior Research Associate at Kazan Federal University, Russia.