Dr Chris Shelton
Head of Education, Reader in Education
About
Chris is聽Head of Education within the Institute of Education, Health and Social Sciences at the 香港六合论坛. He is responsible for Education and Teacher Education programmes.
Chris has taught on BA, PGCE and MA Education programmes on a range of modules related to ICT, Computing and Professional Studies.
He has also been an External Examiner for聽a number of聽undergraduate and postgraduate teacher education programmes.聽Chris is a聽member of the National Executive Committee of ITTE (the Association for IT in Teacher Education).
He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a member聽of聽BERA and of IFIP Working Groups 3.1 and 3.3. Previously he worked in primary schools across Key Stages One and Two.
Chris聽regularly runs in-service training events for primary聽school teachers at the Bognor Regis campus and in local schools.
Key Research and Publications
Recent publications can be found on .
Chris has a range of research interests relating to聽technology, computing and digital literacy in schools and universities. He has published several articles about teacher’s thinking about technology in Higher Education and his recent work has explored the聽pedagogy of teaching computing; teacher beliefs and knowledge about technology; and the curriculum.
Chris was UK project director for the CIRT (Consortium for Intercultural Reflective Teachers) project – an EU funded project (鈧�200,000) in collaboration with Pennsylvania State University in the USA and J枚nk枚ping University in Sweden. The project aimed to encourage international collaboration through a five year programme of staff and student exchanges between the three partner universities (2008-2012).
He was awarded a 拢5,000 grant from the Teaching Agency as part of the Leading Partners Programme: ICT. This was used to explore and develop links with partnership schools to improve teacher training in ICT (2012).
Chris has presented at a wide range of聽national and international聽academic conferences.
Research Output
Articles
Twining, P., Butler, D., Fisser, P., Leahy, M., Shelton, C., Forget-Dubois, N. and Lacasse, M. (2020) Educational Technology Research and Development. ISSN 1042-1629
Younie, S., Audain, J., Eloff, I., Leask, M., Procter, R. and Shelton, C. (2018) Journal of Education for Teaching, 44 (5). pp. 574-589. ISSN 0260-7476
Shelton, C. (2018) Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 34 (4). pp. 92-106. ISSN 1449-3098
Shelton, C. (2018) Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 30. pp. 279-297. ISSN 1042-1726
Shelton, C. (2017) Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 26 (3). pp. 303-321. ISSN 1475-939X DOI: 10.1080/1475939X.2016.1217269
Shelton, C. (2016) ITTE Newsletter, Spring (2016). ISSN 1362-9433
Shelton, C. (2014) British Journal of Educational Technology, 45 (4). pp. 748-759. ISSN 1467-8535
Book Sections
Shelton, C. and Lansley, M. (2023) In: Towards a collaborative society through creative learning. IFIP World Conference on Computers in Education. Springer, Hiroshima, Japan, pp. 653-662. ISBN 9783031433924
Shelton, C. and O'Kelly, J. (2019) In: Surviving and Thriving in the Secondary School: The NQT鈥檚 Essential Companion. Routledge, London, pp. 202-212. ISBN 978-1138489707
Shelton, C. (2017) In: Debates in Computing and ICT Education. Debates in Subject Teaching . Routledge: Taylor & Francis, Abingdon, Oxfordshire. ISBN 9781138891784
Shelton, C. (2017) In: Debates in Computing and ICT Education. Debates in Subject Teaching . Routledge: Taylor & Francis, Abingdon, Oxfordshire. ISBN 9781138891784
Shelton, C. (2017) In: Tomorrow's Learning: Involving Everyone. Learning with and about Technologies and Computing. 11th IFIP TC 3 World Conference on Computers in Education, WCCE 2017, Dublin, Ireland, July 3-6, 2017, Revised Selected Papers. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, 515 . Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 506-514. ISBN 978-3-319-74309-7
Conference or Workshop Items
Shelton, C. (2017) In: Information Technology in Teacher Education (ITTE) Annual Conference, 21 June 2017, Hull.
Shelton, C. (2016) In: Constructionism 2016, 1-5 February 2016, Bangkok, Thailand.
Shelton, C. (2016) In: Information Technology in Teacher Education (ITTE) Annual Conference, 2nd July 2016, London.
Shelton, C. (2012) In: British Educational Research Association Annual Conference 2012, 4-6 Sep 2012, University of Manchester. (Submitted)
Shelton, C. (2011) In: Computer Assisted Learning Conference: Learning Futures: Education, Technology & Sustainability, 13-15 Apr 2011, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester. (Submitted)
Shelton, C. (2011) In: Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, Mar 2011, Nashville, Tennessee. (Submitted)
Other department members
Carys Wreyford
Senior Lecturer in Education, Special Needs and Disability (SEND) Studies
