Writing and Speaking
Dr Bernard Trafford has a deep interest in the
management of schools in the broadest sense, believing that the way in which
students and staff are treated is indivisible from their intellectual, academic
and pastoral development. He is a passionate advocate of
democratic/open/consultative ways of running schools and is an authority on
school/student councils and children's rights in education. He has
advised government on Citizenship and Participation, in 2007 co-authored (with
a Swedish headteacher) a manual on the democratic governance of schools for the
49 member states of the Council of Europe (now translated into 14 languages),
and still works with the Council or individual states from time to time.
In 1991 Bernard gained a MEd in Educational Management and Policy from Birmingham University, and in 1993 he published Sharing Power in Schools: Raising Standards. His research into, and writing about, democratic approaches to management and schooling has continued ever since: his doctoral thesis, completed in 1996, won the George Cadbury Prize for that year, and the narrative section was published in 1997 by the Educational Heretics Press as Participation, power-sharing and school improvement. What he describes as his definitive work on this theme bringing together the available research and all his experience - School councils, school democracy, school improvement: why, what, how - was published by the Secondary Heads Association (now the Association of School and College Leaders) in 2003. In January 2006 ASCL also published Bernard’s follow-up booklet Raising the student voice: a framework for effective school councils which was launched by Lord Adonis, then Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Schools.
Bernard has written or contributed
to several other books and academic journals on education, democracy and
leadership. For full lists, click on one of the links below.
Bernard has long been a regular
contributor to Headlines, the Journal of the Secondary Heads Association (now
the Association of School and College Leaders)
and, from 2005, its replacement The Leader. He is a panellist for SecEd,
the weekly journal for secondary education and, since 2008, has been writing
for CRONER-i Independent Education e-Newsletter. He also writes an occasional
column in Newcastle’s daily paper, The
Journal.
Most of Bernard’s newspaper and
magazine articles are now available to be read via hyperlink. For full lists of
all his writing, click on one of the links below.
Bernard is in demand as a speaker
and trainer. For recent courses and papers, click on one of the links below.
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