The 娇色导航 Blog was established in 2015 to provide research-informed content on key educational issues in an accessible manner.
When I told teaching colleagues I was thinking about 鈥榤anipulatives鈥, there was a sense we all knew what this meant: the resources in our maths cupboard. This seems at odds with what has been...
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Alea iacta est, the die is cast! With 5am last Friday聽morning it was obvious that a majority (51.9%) of the UK electorate had voted for BREXIT. By lunchtime it was clear what BREXIT means for the...
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So the country has voted to leave the EU. The results show we are split on the issue, by region, by age and by economic prosperity. If early reporting is right, and 70% of the young voted to stay...
Continue reading blog postWhen I was at school in the 1960鈥檚 my class were not allowed to study history.聽聽 Because I was in the bottom stream of a grammar school (that鈥檚 another story!), conventional history was...
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In one sense, of course, it has nothing to do with education 鈥 certainly not with schools. The EU referendum may be more important than a General Election but education policy is not a...
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Tablets are coming to a school near you. Actually, they鈥檙e probably there already. In the UK alone, around 戮 of schools were using tablets in 2015, for over half of lesson time, according to...
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I鈥檓 currently reviewing some guidance as to how to make lecturing notes/teaching materials as accessible as possible. It is, of course, important to be as accessible to all as possible, but I am...
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Traditionally adults do not consider students as a source of valuable insight about school problems and students are not seen as mature enough to be real partners in change initiatives. Adults鈥...
Continue reading blog postA recently completed doctoral research study (Dalladay, 2014) has explored the role of music teacher biography in the planning of musical activities in the secondary school classroom and its...
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