What are we educating for?
Although it has always been significant, the question of what we are educating for is now particularly important. There is growing consensus that the educational challenges we face require...
Blog special issues
Refine results
Showing results 13–24 of 43
Arts for All: Exploring inclusivity in arts education
There are many shared themes and ideas across the fields of arts-based and inclusive research: the arts have the capacity to connect different communities, provide a means of expression, and...
To read, or not to read?
How diverse practices, perspectives and experiences shape our reading engagement
Action research: Research into action
A number of ½¿É«µ¼º½ events between 2020 and 2022 enabled researchers to come together from a range of different education settings (primary, secondary, tertiary and higher education). These events...
Spotlight on language and literacy
This special issue of the ½¿É«µ¼º½ Blog places a spotlight on educational research in the field of language and literacy. Covering a range of topics from modern language learning to language as an...
A new ecology of higher education: Disability, access, participation and belonging
This special issue of the ½¿É«µ¼º½ Blog aims to push higher education towards a new ecology that embraces the values and voices of disabled students, and places inclusion and equity at the forefront...
Transitions, wellbeing and mental health: Education after lockdown
It is important to mark the Covid-19 lockdown as a significant transition which educators and students experienced. We all, to varying degrees, experienced a range of social, cultural and...
Education research: Northern Ireland
Education in Northern Ireland (NI) is characterised by segregation along religious/sectarian lines underpinned by a long history of religious tensions and fractured politics. Ninety-three per...
Educators learning through communities of philosophical enquiry
‘Community’ is suggestive of collectivism and plurality, while ‘enquiry’ evokes processes of exploration led by pressing questions or concerns. Combining these concepts and practices is at...
Competing discourses in early childhood education and care
Early childhood education and care (ECEC) has developed to meet different aims to encourage children’s holistic development; embed attitudes consistent with lifelong learning; facilitate...
Spotlight on SEND: Curriculum design and practice
On 24Â March 2022, the British Curriculum Forum (BCF) ran the Spotlight on SEND: Curriculum Design and Practice online event. The event focused attention on research-informed curriculum design and...
Educational leadership on the threshold of a post-pandemic world
Schools, colleges and universities after Covid-19
