My Background
With over twenty years of learning, development, and quality management experience at senior level, my doctorate focused on how professional identity forms in practice. My research drew on rich theoretical traditions and grounded fieldwork, with a deep interest in how people actually learn, become, and belong. Since then, my research evolved into what I now call the Identity-In-Practice Framework — a model that reframes the problem of professional development and offers a structural lens for designing identity-forming communities. I engage both academic traditions and organisational realities — not to simplify complexity, but to translate it usefully.
Professional Learning, Reframed
* Participation, not information
* Identity formation, not behaviour modification
* Communities of practice, not learning events
Core Interests
* Supporting innovation within organisational boundaries
* Formality/ informality, and learning
* Learning and the patterns of participation
* How support within a community of practice, can look unsupportive (even hostile) to outsiders
Dr Karl K Durrant
BSc (Hons) PGCE MA MEd EdD