Dr David Crook

David Crook joined Brunel University in 2011. Formerly a comprehensive secondary school teacher, he worked at the Institute of Education, University of London, between 1994 and 2010, including periods as Course Leader for the MA in History of Education, Assistant Dean of Research and Consultancy and Head of the Educational Foundations and Policy Studies Department. He remains a Visiting Fellow of the Institute.

David leads Brunel’s MA in Education. He teaches on this course and also on the BA in Contemporary Education and the EdD programme. Over the past 15 years he has supervised and examined a range of EdD, MPhil and PhD research students. His historical research interests include secondary and higher education policy studies and the professional education and training of teachers. He would be pleased to hear from prospective research students working in these areas.

David has undertaken consultancies for local authorities, charities, the BBC, the Northern Ireland Assembly and the European Parliament. He has held funded research grants from the Nuffield Foundation, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and, together with colleagues from the Institute of Education and King’s College, University of London, is now currently completing a project entitled 'Social Change and English: A Study of Three English Departments 1945-1965', funded by the Leverhulme Trust.

David is an executive member of the History of Education Society and is currently co-editor of the Society’s journal, History of Education, the leading English-language journal for the field.

Among his current writing projects are a joint authored book (with John Hardcastle, Peter Medway and Georgina Brewis) on the history of postwar English teaching in three London secondary schools (for Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), a joint edited collection (with Bryan Cunningham) on professional life in UK higher education (for the IoE Press, 2013).

Research Group

Education Identities and Social Inclusion (EISI)

Publications

Journal Papers

(2012) Raftery, D. and Crook, D., Forty years of History of Education, 1972-2011, HISTORY OF EDUCATION 41 (1) : 5- 7

(2012) Crook, D., Teacher education as a field of historical research: retrospect and prospect, History of Education 41 (1) : 57- 72

(2011) Crook, D., Editorial: Citizenship, religion and education, History of Education 40 (6) : 695- 700

(2011) Crook, D., Standards in English education: An enduring historical issue, Revista Española de Educación Comparada (Spanish Journal of Comparative Education) 18 61- 88

(2011) Crook, D., In-service education and professional development for teachers in England: Historical perspectives from the late twentieth century, History of Education Researcher (87) : 4- 12

(2008) Crook, D., "The middle school cometh" . . . and goeth: Alec Clegg and the rise and fall of the English middle school', Education 3-13 36 (2) : 117- 125

(2007) Crook, D., Editorial: Education, health and social welfare, History of Education 36 (6) : 651- 657

(2007) Crook, D., School broadcasting in the United Kingdom: an exploratory history, Journal of Educational Administration and History 39 (3) : 217- 226

(Accepted) Crook, D., Education in the United Kingdom: Structures and standards in the past and the present, Il problemi della pedagogica

Conference Papers

(2008) Crook, D., Secondary Education and the Labour Party in England, Invited lecture, Labour Party Policy on Secondary Education in UK

Book Chapters

(2008) Crook, D., Some historical perspectives on professionalism. In: Cunningham, B. ed. Exploring professionalism. London : Institute of Education 10- 27

(2008) Crook, D. and McCulloch, G., Editors' Introduction. In: McCulloch, G. and Crook, D. eds. The Routledge international encyclopedia of education. New York and London : Routledge xxxi- xxxvi

(2007) Crook, D., "The Member for Education": the life and times of the University of London's final Member of Parliament, Sir Ernest Graham-Little (1867-1950). In: Crook, D. and McCulloch, G. eds. History, Politics and Policy-making in Education: A Festschrift Presented to Richard Aldrich.. London : Institute of Education

Books

(2008) McCulloch, G. and Crook, D., The Routledge international encyclopedia of education. Routledge

(2007) Crook, D. and McCulloch, G., History, politics and policy-making in education. Inst of Education