Staff profile

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Honorary Fellow in the School of Education |
Biography
Andrew Davis’s career includes eight years in primary schools, six at Cambridge University and over twenty at Durham University where he is a Research Fellow. He has worked for the Quality Assurance Agency as a Subject Specialist Reviewer and directed Argument Matters, a strand of the National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth Durham summer school for four years. He is Assistant Editor of the Journal of Philosophy of Education and secretary of the Durham Branch of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain.
He contributes to Combined Social Sciences, Combined Arts, Education Studies, Primary PGCE, Secondary PGCE and MA.
Please check out link for current projects and publications: http://ajdav35.wix.com/andrew-davis-educ
A Critique of Pure Teaching Methods and the Case for Synthetic Phonics Video of the UCL/IOE 22nd November 2017 event
Andrew Davis was interviewed by Richard Marshall for for 3:16 Educational Assessment, Religious Pluralism, Synthetic Phonics and Other Educational Issues - 3:16
Blog Links
Are Faith Schools Indoctrinatory? https://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/faithschooling/entry/are_faith_schools/
And 'Is Homework Detrimental to Children's Well-being?http://theqstn.com/questions/218215/is-homework-detrimental-to-children-s-wellbeing
Publication Information
To get a free download of "To read or not to read: decoding synthetic phonics" (published online December 13th 2013) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2048-416X.2013.12000.x/abstract
View launch of "To read or not to read: decoding synthetic phonics" (held January 29th 2014 at the Institute of Education, London University) at https://www.dropbox.com/sh/8n52lgaxzfi9d82/TrdlBd2s6-#lh:null-PESGB2.mp4
Summary articles and selected media coverage of "To Read or not to Read..":
Don’t let reading wars hold back more able children - available https://theconversation.com/dont-let-reading-wars-hold-back-more-able-children-22468
A Plague on the Fundamentalism of synthetic phonics- at http://news.tes.co.uk/b/opinion/2014/01/28/39-a-plague-on-the-fundamentalism-of-synthetic-phonics-39.aspx
Brief clip from Radio 5 live coverage at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01qpxlv
Interview - available at http://www.nurseryworld.co.uk/nursery-world/other/1142017/interview-andrew-davis-research-fellow-durhamuniversitys-school-education
News report about "To read or not to read" plus comments - at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-25917646
Reading lessons: why synthetic phonics doesn't work http://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/teacher-blog/2014/mar/04/reading-lessons-phonics-world-book-day?CMP=twt_gu
Research interests
- Assessment
- Philosophy and psychology of mathematical learning
- Primary mathematics
- Reading and phonics
- Researching teaching methods