Writing and Speaking
Dr Bernard Trafford has a deep interest in the
leadership 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. Click on the link for a list of his major books and articles.
Bernard is a ‘Leading Thinker’ for
the National Education Trust
and a panellist for SecEd,
the weekly journal for secondary education. He writes regularly for
· HMC’s house magazine Conference and Common Room,
· contributes occasional articles to the Times Educational Supplement
· and (since September 2011) has a weekly (Thursday) opinion column in Newcastle’s daily paper, The Journal.
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He was for several years a regular contributor to Headlines, the Journal of the Secondary Heads Association (now the Association of School and College Leaders), and still writes occasionally for its replacement (from 2005), The Leader.
Most of Bernard’s newspaper and
magazine articles are now available to be read online: use the links below.
Bernard is also in demand as a
speaker and trainer. For titles of recent courses and papers, click here.
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