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Dominic Wyse appointed a Fellow of AcSS

Many congratulations to ½¿É«µ¼º½ Council member and one of the Editors of the Curriculum Journal, Dominic Wyse who has been awarded Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences.  Dominic was...

Beyond the school gates: reciprocal academic leadership

One of the features of the school improvement landscape over the past two decades has been a focus on developing school leadership and how this leadership is used to empower teachers in the quest...

Another fine mess! The allocation of initial teacher training places for 2016

In their excoriating analysis of The Blunders of our Governments, the political scientists Anthony King and Ivor Crewe offer twelve case studies, or 'horror stories', as they call them, from the...

½¿É«µ¼º½ Annual Conference 2016 – abstract notification

Notification emails have now been sent out to all abstract submitters for the ½¿É«µ¼º½ Annual Conference 2016.Check your inboxes. Has your abstract been accepted?The volume and standard of abstracts...

Teacher peer coaching; a story of trust, agency and enablers

This blog is a good news story in terms of teacher collaboration from The Hermitage Academy, a North-East Teaching School. The Academy has deliberately and steadily built a culture of teacher...

Schools, community and the low attainment nexus

Research Commission: Poverty and Policy Advocacy

The ½¿É«µ¼º½ Commission on Poverty and Policy Advocacy: seminar series Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email [email protected] for details of how to...

Call for Papers: Curriculum Journal Special issue edited by James Albright

Guest editor James Albright (The University of Newcastle, Australia)Revisiting the Principes pour une réflexion sur les contenus d’enseignment (Bourdieu, 1989)Volume 28 Issue 1, to be published...

A Technological revolution in Our New Year’s Resolutions?

By now, many of us are probably starting to waver on our New Year's resolutions. In recent years, these have increasingly involved limiting our use of technology, the Internet and mobile phones,...

Interrogating the boundaries of childhood studies and youth studies: Themes, debates and controversies in research and practice

Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email [email protected] for details of how to register onsite.Programme10.30 Arrival and Registration11.00 Opening...

Giving, saving, spending: What would Welsh children do with £1 million?

WISERD Education has been exploring children’s responses to a single question: ‘If someone gave you £1 million today, what would you do with it?’ Although such an exploration might seem...

International Perspectives On Educational Inequalities And Social Policy-Making

Following Teesside University’s successful social policy REF (Research Excellence Framework) submission I accepted a formal invitation to attend The Bremen International Graduate School of...

Training and/or Learning and Development which is key for quality in teaching

The drive to measure teaching performance through observations and assessment in schools and the introduction of teaching excellence framework (TEF) at HEI has led educators to ask “where do we...