Associate Professor Trevor Mutton
Academic profile
I have worked at the Department of Education since 1997, having previously been Head of Modern Languages in a local secondary school. Before that I had completed my undergraduate degree in French and German at the University of Wales and later completed my Masters at Westminster College Oxford (now Oxford Brookes Institute of Education). I currently teach across a range of programmes, including the Modern Languages PGCE, the MSc in Learning and Teaching, and the MSc Teacher Education, as well as supervising doctoral students whose research focuses on aspects of teacher education and teachers’ professional learning. I am married with three grown-up children and live close to Oxford.
Research interests
My principal research interests are in the fields of initial teacher education and teachers’ continued professional learning, although more recent work has focussed on teacher education policy, both nationally and internationally. This has included a comparative study of learning to teach in England and the United States, carried out with colleagues from Oxford and the US.
Recent publications include:
Mutton, T., Burn, K., Thompson, I. & Childs, A. (2021). The complex policy landscape of initial teacher education in England: What’s the problem represented to be? In D. Mayer (Ed) Teacher Education Policy and Research: Global Perspectives, Springer
Woore, R, Mutton, T., & Molway, L. (2020) ‘It’s definitely part of who I am in the role’. Developing teachers’ research engagement through a subject-specific Master’s programme, Teacher Development 24(1), 88-107
Mutton, T. & Burn, K. (2020) Doing things differently: responding to the ‘policy problem’ of teacher education in Wales, Cylchgrawn Addysg Cymru/Wales Journal of Education, 22(1), 82-109
Menter, I., Mutton, T. & Burn, K. (2019). Learning to teach in England - Reviewing policy and research trends, in T. Tatto & I. Menter (Eds) Knowledge, Policy and Practice in Learning to Teach: A Cross-National Study ( London: Bloomsbury) 60-80
Tatto, T., Burn, K., Menter, I., Mutton, T. & Thompson, I. (2018) Learning to Teach in England and the United States: the Evolution of Policy and Practice (London, Routledge)
