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Learning from variation

BCF Curriculum Investigation Grant Research Reports

How can variation theory can be applied to the use of manipulatives to support understanding of early number? This report makes an important contribution to the existing literature on how to teach...

Walking and talking as and for methodological development

This collaborative blog was produced from discussions by attendees of the ½¿É«µ¼º½ Walk and Talk event held on 18 October 2019 at the Open University in Milton Keynes. The event’s aim was to...

Pauline Lyseight-Jones

Pauline Lyseight-Jones is a late-career early career researcher, having been awarded her EdD in 2017 after working in education for decades, as a teacher, inspector and an education consultant....

Caroline Zwierzchowska-Dod

Caroline Zwierzchowska-Dod is an educational consultant, newborn and parenting specialist and doctoral researcher. She comes to her doctoral studies with experience as a primary school teacher and...

Interdisciplinary, interactive climate change education: A STEAM approach

‘Climate emergency’ has been defined as the word of 2019 by the Oxford English Dictionary (BBC Newsround, 2019). Around the world adults and school children are realising that climate change...

Crisis for whom? Education for climate justice in Scotland

This research was borne of our shared conviction that education fit for addressing the climate crisis must move away from a vague discourse of undifferentiated responsibility and squarely pose the...

‘Dear Oak’: Becoming more place-responsive in the climate and ecological crisis

Catherine: It’s winter. I’m in the heart of the Cairngorms on a field course for my outdoor education MSc at Edinburgh University. I’ve woken to a dusting of snow on my tent and the crunch...

A different kind of education…

Recent protests by Extinction Rebellion, worldwide Fridays for Future strikes by young people and the UN Climate Summit show a growth in global awareness of, and concern about, the climate crisis....

Jennifer Rudd

Dr Jennifer Rudd is a Senior Lecturer in Circular Economy in the School of Management. She has previously worked on technological solutions to climate change from a chemistry and engineering...

Jack Reed

Jack completed an MSc in Outdoor Education at the University of Edinburgh in January 2020. He began a PhD at the University of Edinburgh in October 2020 researching the influence of mobile devices...

Catherine Dunn

Catherine Dunn is a postgraduate student studying an MSc in outdoor education. Catherine has been heavily involved in climate activism at Edinburgh University and has worked extensively with both...

Richard Millican

Richard Millican is senior lecturer in education at the University of Gloucestershire. He has worked in many different educational environments in this country and abroad and has a longstanding...