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Keith Turvey

K Turvey
Senior Lecturer

contact:
Education
Falmer
Brighton

Telephone: +44 (0)1273 643378

Email: kt6@brighton.ac.uk

Duties

  • Professional Development Tutor
  • University Link Adviser
  • Dissertation Tutor – MA Education
  • Editor R.Ed

Teaching

  • BA Hons (QTS)
  • PGCE Primary and Secondary  
  • MA Education

Research

  • Mirandanet 2002-2003 – Online Communities
  • TDA – Creativity and digital technologies
  • Community University Partnership Project (CUPP) funded research – student learning in the community
  • TDA – Early Years and Foundation Stage Practitioners’ Professional Learning with ICT
  • PhD - the development of student teacher’s online professional practice with new technologies

Biography

Keith taught for fifteen years in East Sussex, London and abroad as a VSO volunteer in Nepal on a non-formal village education programme. He has held various co-ordinator and management roles in Primary Schools including music co-ordinator, mathematics and ICT co-ordinator. He left a post as Senior Teacher in September 2003 to join the university.

Keith’s main areas of research focus on ICT, pedagogy and teacher education. He regularly undertakes peer reviews for the international journal Computers and Education  and was a member of the of the organising committee for the CAL 09 ‘Learning in Digital Worlds’ international conference held in Brighton.

Selected Recent Publications

Books
Allen, J. Potter, J. Sharp, J. Turvey, K. (2007) Primary ICT: Knowledge, Understanding and Practice, Exeter: Learning Matters

Articles

  • Turvey, K. Totraku, P. Colwell, J. (2010) “Preparing Early Years Practitioners for the challenges of embedding the use of ICT into their professional practice; what are the challenges?” TDA, Available online: http://ttrb.ac.uk/attachments/2be0140a-e762-4ee5-99be-d6d5e99be74a.pdf
  • Turvey, K. (2010), “Pedagogical-research designs to capture the symbiotic nature of professional knowledge and learning about e-learning in initial teacher education in the UK.” Computers and Education, 54:3, 783-790doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2009.08.013 
  • Turvey, K. Totraku, P. Colwell, J. (2009) “It would have been useful to know about that piece of software!” Research in Education, 2:1, 9-13,  Available online: http://www.brighton.ac.uk/education/research/publications/red
  • Turvey, K. (2008), “Student teachers go online; the need for a focus on human agency and pedagogy in learning about 'e-learning' in initial teacher education (ITE).” Education and Information Technologies, 13:4, 317-327
    Eastwood, R. & Turvey, K. (2008) “Equal opportunities or loaded dice? The 2007 Admissions Code after the Brighton and Hove adjudication,” Research Intelligence,  British Educational Research Association (BERA), 102, 20-21
  • Turvey, K. (2006) The ethical challenges of researching primary school children’s online activities: A new ethical paradigm for the virtual ethnographer? Available online www.leeds.ac.uk/educol/documents/157434.htm  
  • Turvey, K. (2006) “Towards Deeper Learning through Creativity within Online Communities in Primary Education,” Computers and Education, 46:3, 309-321
  • Loveless, A., Burton, J. & Turvey, K. (2006) “Developing Conceptual Frameworks for Creativity, ICT and Teacher Education,” International Journal of Teaching for Thinking and Creativity, 1:1, 3-13
  • Turvey, K. (2005) “Elearning, efacilitation, ecommunities, epedagogies: a professional standpoint based on evidence,” Reflecting Education, 1:1, 24 - 40
  • Turvey, K. (2004) “Online Communities within the Primary School Context: What affordances emerge from the use of online communities with primary school children?” Available online www.mirandanet.ac.uk/cgi-bin/journals/search_ej.pl?runtype=casedisplay;cid=17;ejtype=all;origin=mnet

Recent Keynote Presentations
ICT and Creativity; realising the potential & recognising the limits, Keynote for international conference “ICT for Teaching & Learning ‘Creatively’” Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, November 2008.