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Curriculum development through professional enquiry: Developments in Wales

Since the publication of Graham Donaldson’s report in 2015 (Donaldson, 2015) and the adoption of its recommendations by the Welsh Government, pioneer schools across Wales have been taking the...

Invisible educators or connecting professionals? Post-compulsory teacher educators

Overall, teacher educators generally tend to be seen as ‘an ill-defined, under researched and sometimes beleaguered occupational group’ (Menter, Hulme, Elliott, & Lewin, 2010: 11). ½¿É«µ¼º½ and...

Rethinking sex and relationship education in the age of #MeToo

In February 2017, the UK government announced that it would introduce legislation to make age-appropriate sex and relationship education (SRE) compulsory within English schools. The objective of...

Unthinkable, unfundable and unknowable: The ‘evidence void’ on making science accessible to pupils with learning disabilities

The question of how, in an age of performativity, we will be enabled to undertake any research other than that which promises to be productive in the short term is becoming increasingly pressing....

Re-imagining a curriculum for teacher knowledge

A BCF Event for schools, colleges and universities What do teachers do?  How we answer this question has implications for what they need to know and how, where and when they learn to be...

Faith-based education is (not) what we are talking about

Writings about faith and education tend to fall into particular longstanding debates about: the teaching of religious education in schools; the act (or not) of assembly; the use of religious texts...

Forget me not? LGBTIQ+ representation and rights in education

In the film 120 Beats Per Minute, which depicts the work of Act UP Paris during the AIDS epidemic in France in the 1990s, activists perform a nonviolent instance of direct action: they enter a...

Promoting spatial ability skills through educational robotics: Are they equally effective for girls and boys?

Promoting spatial ability skills through educational robotics: Are they equally effective for girls and boys? Over the past few decades there has been a lively debate about the quality of...

Knowledge entitlement or misguided policy? The new multiplication tables check for primary children

In 2020, the UK government will introduce a multiplication tables check for primary school children aged 8–9 in England. ‘Times tables’ are a contentious issue because they represent a lot...

½¿É«µ¼º½ Bites, issue 3: Innovative methods for educational research

½¿É«µ¼º½ Bites

The ½¿É«µ¼º½ Bites series presents selected articles from the ½¿É«µ¼º½ Blog on key topics in education, presented in an easily printable and digestible format to serve as teaching and learning resources...

Inequality of pedagogy in English schools: How significant is it?

Addressing educational inequality has been a longstanding focus for educational research as well as for English education policy, yet the attainment gap between rich and poor remains constant...

Academy of Social Sciences response to Plan S, and UKRI implementation