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‘Part of the furniture’: Navigating ethical issues when researching teachers’ work

This blog post explores navigating ethical issues when examining the influence of neoliberal performativity on primary teachers’ work in physical education (PE). The sophisticated ways in which...

Twenty years of methods use in education research: Are we moving in the right direction?

½¿É«µ¼º½ launched its ‘State of the Discipline’ initiative in 2019 with the aim of offering ‘a clear, comprehensive account of the state of education as an academic discipline’. As part of...

Ethical Dilemmas in Educational Research

½¿É«µ¼º½ Case Studies for Researchers by Researchers

Guía ética para la investigación educativa, quinta edición (2024)

La quinta edición de la Guía ética para la investigación educativa de ½¿É«µ¼º½ ha sido revisada y actualizada para que los investigadores puedan desempeñar su labor con el máximo rigor ético y...

Communicating research to practice: Creating effective research summaries

With a greater emphasis on engagement and impact within academia, academics are increasingly creating research summaries, and other outputs, to share their research findings for teachers, and...

Exiting the field: Reflections on research departures and lingering questions

Several years after ‘finishing’ collecting data for my ethnographic case study, I still can’t think about leaving the field without worrying about my exit. In 2020 I began my Education PhD,...

The ½¿É«µ¼º½ Blog: Highlights of 2025

½¿É«µ¼º½ Blog end of year highlights

Snow-dusted salutations and tinsel-tinged tidings to all our readers, authors, curators and guest editors around the globe. In this, the ½¿É«µ¼º½ Blog’s tenth anniversary year, I look back over the...

Serendipity in motion: Navigating the unexpected in research

Vignette: The unexpected It was near the end of the workshop, and the materials table – once a neat arrangement of brushes, papers and pigments – had become a glorious mess. Most of the...

SIG Meet & Discuss: Research Methodologies in Education

We invite you to join an informal meeting with the ½¿É«µ¼º½ Research Methodologies in Education SIG, where we will come together to share research findings, practical insights, and discuss key aspects...

Making case-based learning relevant for educators

Case-based learning: A research-informed pedagogy Case-based learning (CBL) bridges the gap between theory and practice by immersing students in real-world scenarios that are grounded in...

From ‘stuck moments’ to understanding: Theorising as a way of researching educational practice

This blog post shares an approach to researching persistent challenges of practice that developed in response to a practice issue: how best to support pre-service teachers to develop pedagogical...

Adapting Gramsci’s framework through retroductive inference: Insights from Kazakhstani higher education

This piece focuses on the challenges of applying Western theoretical concepts in non-Western contexts – particularly through a retroductive approach applied to higher education (HE) research in...