ENIRDELM Board expanded

By consent of the membership at the Uppsala Conference in Sept 2007 the ENIRDELM Board was expanded to seven.

Ola Hoff Kaldestad, Assistant Professor, Norsk Lærerakademi (The Norwegian Teacher Academy) in Bergen, Norway. In addition to being Chairperson of ENIRDELM for 2007-8, Ola specialises in teacher education, primarily in a Master Degree programme in Educational Leadership. In recent years ha has been very much involved in school leadership in-service training. This also includes working as a mentor in schools and work as change agent in municipalities. In the 2006-7 academic year he completed several school-evaluation projects.

Paul Mahieu, Professor and Vice-President of the Institute for Education & Information Sciences, University of Antwerp, Belgium. Doctor in Political and Social Sciences (1988) based on the thesis: “Participation in School Management, an organisation sociological approach”. Academic coordinator of the Masters degree programme in Educational Management and also involved in the Masters programme in Educational Sciences and the Academic Teacher Training. President of the Local Consultative Body for Primary Education, City of Antwerp and Vice-President of the Trans-national University of Limburg. Areas of Interest: School Leadership and Management, School Culture, Educational Marketing, (de)segregation.

Eileen O’Connor, Director, Drumcondra Teacher Education Centre, Dublin, Ireland.
She is facilitator of teacher and school leaders’ professional development and was formerly a secondary school teacher, Deputy Principal of a Community and Comprehensive School and member of the National Leadership Development for Schools (LDS) Project. Areas of Interest: School Leadership and Administration, Teacher Education and Teacher Professional Learning and Gender and Leadership issues.
Eileen is currently completing Doctoral thesis at the Institute of Education, London researching post-primary school middle leaders’ professional learning experiences and learning needs.

Milan Pol, Associate Professor of education, currently chairing the Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. For the last 15 years he has been professionally involved in research, development and teaching in the field of education and school development mainly in the Czech Republic, but also abroad. His research interests include school culture, democracy in schools and school governance. Currently he leads a team which is researching the life and professional career paths of school heads.

Gerald Dunning, Head of the Department which includes education in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Glamorgan. He is a past president of ENIRDEM (in the last year before we added the L!) and hosted the 2006 conference in Wales. His professional and research interests include comparative educational management and leadership (inevitable perhaps in an “ENIRDELMIAN”!) and he has resurrected a previous interest in the problematic nature of school leadership. He was a participant in the 1990s ENIRDEM “First Years of Headship” project and co-edited the resulting book “New Heads in the New Europe” with Ray Bolam and Peter Karstanje. He has also published in the field of school effectiveness. These days his teaching commitments are most centred on the pedagogy / andragogy of university teaching and he runs the Masters Degree professional development programme for new academic staff at the University of Glamorgan. He is currently engaged in the development and provision of professional development programmes for teachers and management/leadership staff in the Welsh Further Education (16 – 19) sector.

Kristina Malmberg, Director of Studies at the Department of Studies in Education, Culture and Media, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Uppsala University, Sweden.
For the last ten years she has been involved as co-ordinator and facilitator in development programmes for school staff, as lecturer in the Masters Degree programme in Educational Leadership and as evaluator in several studies of school improvement and in-service training programmes at municipality, national and international levels. She is currently engaged in the remodelling of the initial teacher training programme. Main areas of interests: teachers’ professional development, school improvement, management and leadership.

Anita Trnavcevic - [details to come]