The 娇色导航 Blog was established in 2015 to provide research-informed content on key educational issues in an accessible manner.
Last week I sat down with my son to watch The Hunt, a new David Attenborough documentary about predatory behaviour. The episode was filmed in the Arctic. There, when the ice caps melt, the life of...
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I鈥檓 both laughing and crying. We do a lot of that in education, don鈥檛 we? Someone at work who works closely with teachers just told me that teachers in English schools, if asked about a test...
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鈥楨verything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.鈥 聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 聽Italo Calvino Why is it that...
Continue reading blog postOver the last 12 months I have been lucky enough to have the opportunity to read, reflect and write about evidence-based practice and education.聽 The more and more I have read about the...
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As a practitioner within FE I have observed a variety of different levels of learners where the interaction between them may not always be as I would expect.聽 Some learners clearly display the...
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The issue of effectively engaging linguistically and culturally diverse students is one that preoccupies teachers and researchers alike, resonating across rural, suburban, urban, mainstream and...
Continue reading blog postAt a national and international level, research on very low attaining pupils of secondary age is rare compared to younger age groups, and while there has been increased interest in the past decade...
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In 2014, ReadingWise invited us to carry out an independent study of its Computer-Based Literacy Programme for Accelerated Reading Acquisition. Following exploratory meetings, schools and adult...
Continue reading blog postIn the last two decades there has been an attention on literacy, principally among countries participating in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) (Grek, 2010;...
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