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About Marilyn Leask
- Marilyn Leask is Professor of Education at De Montfort University having previously been Professor of Educational Knowledge Management at the University of Bedfordshire and a Professor at Brunel University.
- She is a trustee of the Education Futures Collaboration Charity and the Bedford and Milton Keynes Waterway Trust.Leask specialises in the knowledge required for teaching, knowledge management in education and in building the evidence and knowledge base for teacher education.
- Classroom practice has developed from her research on digital technologies and teacher knowledge and how digital technologies can be harnessed to support lifelong learning for teachers.Leask co-chairs the Mapping Educational Specialist knowHow Knowledge mobilization and Translational research initiative in education.She is a specialist in: teacher education whole system change, improvement and development across large systems particularly through online networking and knowledge sharingShe is also an elected board member of the UK peak organisations the Council of Subject Associations and the British Educational Research Association and was elected by peers to the peak organisation the Universities Council for the Education of Teachers and the panel assessing UK university educational research in 2008 (RAE 2008).
- This follows a career as a teacher, researcher, academic and government policy officer, author and series editor of the main textbooks used for secondary teacher training in the UK.
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