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2022/2023 BCF Curriculum Investigation Grant Awarded to 3 Schools and Colleges

½¿É«µ¼º½ and the BCF are pleased to announce that the 2022/2023 BCF Curriculum Investigation Grant has been awarded to 3 UK schools and colleges. The BCF Curriculum Investigation Grant is intended to...

Majority of British Pakistanis are actually Kashmiris (who speak Pahari)

Since 1991 our schools have been gathering ethnicity data. This has helped us to know how many children were from which ethnic group and what language they spoke. The exception has been children...

Variation in Black students’ conceptions of academic support: A phenomenographic study

Race & Education: ½¿É«µ¼º½ Small Grants Fund research reports

Inequalities in the educational achievement of minoritised students in higher education (HE) appear in a wide range of national contexts (Richardson, 2018), and are often attributed to structural...

The Birmingham Experience

Things To Do in Birmingham Looking for things to see & do in Birmingham?  Well… call off the search! Just look at all the attractions in Birmingham! If you’re after entertainment in...

Gary Standinger

Gary J Standinger is a teacher of physical education at a secondary academy and sixth form in south-west England and a part-time PhD student at Loughborough University. He recently submitted his...

When the object becomes the subject: Redefining the Teachers’ Standards as ‘learner standards’

In England, the Teachers' Standards are often used formatively to guide quality improvement towards a final summative, quality assurance process which takes place to ensure that the standards have...

Elina Wright

Dr Elina Wright works at Regent's Park College, University of Oxford. She is also Visiting Senior Fellow at the World Religions and Education Research Unit (WRERU) at Bishop Grosseteste University...

½¿É«µ¼º½ Research Commission 2019–2020: Competing discourses in early childhood education and care

Tensions, impacts and democratic alternatives across the UK’s four nations

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...

Affective sociomaterialisation: An inquiry into early childhood subjectivities within outdoor early childhood provision in Scotland, UK

In my doctoral research I focus on alternative outdoor early childhood provision in Scotland. I foreground a sociomaterial approach to understand how young children’s subjectivity, related to...

Children’s design and co-creation of classroom space as a Spatially Democratic Pedagogy

Imagine a classroom of four-to-five-year-old children designing and co-creating their classroom spaces. They are not passive recipients of the spaces created for them, but architects, product...

Pedagogical space(s): The benefits of collaboration with forest school providers for the early years classroom teachers and pupils

In 2022, the Foundation Phase in Wales will be replaced by the new Curriculum for Wales (CfW), a national framework for children aged between three and 16. One of its aims is to provide...