Sally Power
Sally Power is a professor in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, and director of WISERD (Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data). She undertakes research on...
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Chris Taylor
Chris Taylor is a professor of social sciences at Cardiff University and the academic director for the Cardiff University Social Science Research Park. Chris has undertaken a wide range of...
Nigel Newton
Dr Nigel Newton works in the Cardiff School of Education and Social Policy at Cardiff Metropolitan University. His research interests include educational transitions, curriculum studies and school...
The 10 books that made me a sociologist of education
Over a period of 45 years working in higher education I have accumulated a lot of books. I am now sorting through that accumulation and trying to decide which I will keep and which I will pass on...
Continue reading blog postStephen J Ball
Professor Stephen J Ball is emeritus professor of sociology of education at the UCL Institute of Education. His main areas of interest are in education policy analysis and social theory: –...
Is there a tension between teaching and assessing critical-thinking skills?
The widely varying quality of responses to the global Coronavirus pandemic presents yet another example of the importance of critical-thinking skills among leaders and the public dealing with...
Continue reading blog postJonathan Haber
Jonathan Haber is an educational researcher, writer and consultant whose work spans K-12 and higher education. His Degree of Freedom One Year BA project, which involved trying to learn the...
COVID-19
½¿É«µ¼º½ is closely monitoring the developments around the coronavirus (COVID-19) situation. Our position as a charity is to do our best to continue the delivery of our activities in as safe and...
Semiotics, memory and augmented reality: History education with learner-generated augmentation
I recently had the privilege of collaborating with a student-teacher (a teacher-in-training) on a pedagogical approach which leverages some of the affordances of augmented reality (AR). As a...
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Ryan Lim
Ryan Lim is currently pursuing his undergraduate degree at the National Institute of Education of Singapore and is training to become a history teacher at the secondary school level. He is...
½¿É«µ¼º½ Publications Committee: Call for new members
We are pleased to announce the call for new members to apply to join ½¿É«µ¼º½â€™s Publications Committee. Apply now The closing date for submissions of interest is Thursday 28 May 2020. Committee...
‘Student voice’ in lockdown
In an article published in the British Educational Research Journal just before lockdown, ‘Student voice in higher education: Opening the loop’ (Young & Jerome, 2020), we explored some narrow...
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