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University of Bedfordshire
Park Square
Luton
Bedfordshire
UK, LU1 3JU
Lecturer in Education
Chris teaches in both the undergraduate (BA Hons Applied Education) and postgraduate programme (MA Education). His teaching and research interests are focused in the contested field of teacher professional development in diverse school contexts, particularly the development of technology teachers in different countries. His professional qualifications are shared between a strong technology subject curriculum base and an increasing authority in the area of teacher professional development.
Chris started his career as a qualified secondary school teacher and an engineering artisan class one. Chris enjoyed teaching at some of the world’s best schools in both the United Kingdom and Zimbabwe including St Mary Mission, Chitungwiza (Zimbabwe) and Aylesbury Grammar School in Buckinghamshire (UK) where he developed into a reflective teacher in which the praxis of learning while teaching and teaching while learning was central to his professional growth.
Prior to joining the University of Bedfordshire Chris has worked in teacher education for thirteen years in colleges and universities. In 1993 he joined Chinhoyi Technical Teachers’ College as a lecturer in the Pedagogic department where he was instrumental in the development of Professional Studies courses for trainee technology teachers. Some of his responsibilities included establishing college networks with schools for teaching practice placements and industrial attachments from commerce and industry.
In 1999 Chris joined the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) as one of the pioneering team members to launch and teach the first degree programmes at Chinhoyi which is now the Chinhoyi University of Technology (CUT). From the University of Zimbabwe he moved on to the Zimbabwe Open University (ZOU) where his responsibilities included working in a team of four regional cluster co-ordinators tasked to spearhead the development and launch of the first Post Graduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) for secondary school teachers through open and distance learning for the Southern African Region.
