Writing in "Primary Science" 114, this author suggested that there was a perennial issue with initial teacher education (ITE) students and newly qualified teachers (NQTs) not engaging with the theory that underpins their practice. Having worked recently with primary and secondary NQTs in England, this concern proved true and raised another…

Cloud software enables children to engage with their work across and within subjects, not least in science. Bradford College in the UK and the University of Aveiro in Portugal were funded by an Anglo-Portuguese research programme, "The treaty of Windsor", to look at how new web-based technologies are embedded within pre-service and in-service…

It is important to emphasise that it is "not" being suggested that teachers should become engrossed in an unrealistically theoretical world. Teachers will only be convinced of the importance of understanding theory if they see examples of where this makes a real difference. In other words, teacher educators have to illustrate the key ideas which…