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A decolonial ethic: Caring and being careful

Decolonial work is often discussed as if it were principally about knowledge: whose histories appear, whose concepts travel, whose methods count. Yet the deeper claim is ethical. It is about how...

A new national curriculum: Better learning principles and practices

The new UK Labour government, elected in 2024, almost immediately commissioned a Curriculum and Assessment Review, with the intention of developing a broader, cutting-edge curriculum in England...

Intelligence, sapience and learning: Making sense of our world

Artificial Intelligence in educational research and practice

Sentience–sapience relations are of particular interest because they contribute to determinations of what a human being is, how human beings are different from other animals, meanings that we...

Empiricism and technical rationality: Why can’t we mean what we say?

Philosophical issues tend not to occupy a prominent place in books on learning or in accounts of research and knowledge-development. Being concealed in the research and knowledge process, they...

Women curriculum theorists

Feminism is a concept and a practice. As a concept feminism is polysemic, semantically contested, networked, interactive, powerful and dynamic. An important binary that has had real effects in the...

A baccalaureate curriculum

The Times Education Commission produced its final report in June 2022, making forty-five recommendations for reforming the English education system. The recommendations ranged from the banal –...

Against empiricism

As educational researchers, our work is framed and therefore requires us to operate with and through a general theory of objects and object-relations. This enframing comprises a semantic...

Manifestos, policies and practices: An equalities agenda

There is likely to be a general election soon, and this calls for a manifesto or set of policy prescriptions that are opposed to neoliberal institutions, frameworks and ideologies. In addition,...