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Five realignments for curriculum design

As upcoming curriculum reform unfolds across England and Northern Ireland, schools are being invited to reconsider how their curriculum visions relate to profound and unprecedented societal...

½¿É«µ¼º½ Bites, issue 14: Rethinking primary education through pedagogical innovation & wellbeing

½¿É«µ¼º½ Bites

The educational imperatives of our time have led to major curriculum reviews in all four nations of the UK. Common themes across these curriculum reforms include a shift in focus from knowledge to...

Teaching for tomorrow: Why virtual internships belong in the curriculum

The current economic downturn has created an increasingly competitive global jobs market which demands graduates with enhanced transferable skills as outlined in the World Economic Forum’s...

Teacher educators’ collective agency: Making the subject pedagogy curriculum in the Netherlands

As a geography teacher educator, I’ve always been intrigued by how young students manage to master such a complex profession. This curiosity led to my PhD research on the professional...

Building teacher commitment in times of change: Lessons from Norwegian schools

This blog post reports from a study of Norwegian high school teachers’ affective commitment to their school organisation. This commitment embodies a sense of belonging and loyalty that drives...

Getting creative in schools to improve young people’s wellbeing

Wellbeing is about feeling good and functioning well (Deighton, 2016). In the UK, young people’s wellbeing has been declining for the past two decades, and the prevalence of mental health...

From reparation to remigration: How the radical demands of Black Lives Matter were neutralised in the English literature curriculum

The powerful, student-led calls for a racially just English literature curriculum that emerged from the 2020 Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement have been systematically subdued (see Boakye, 2022)....

Racial literacy: Sustained practice for educators

Calls for racial literacy in education are growing louder across the UK (see for example Rabiger, 2025). Many agree that teachers must be ‘racially literate’ to practise safely and equitably;...

½¿É«µ¼º½ and the National Year of Reading

½¿É«µ¼º½ is proud to 'Go All In' and pledge support for the National Year of Reading 2026! This page details some of the initiatives that ½¿É«µ¼º½ has undertaken in the past and present to support...

Editorial: The heart of learning: Spotlight on school libraries in the UK and Ireland

What if the most important room in a school isn’t a classroom, but the one that unlocks every other door to learning? In schools with well-funded and professionally staffed libraries, student...

Looking forward: Positioning the school library within the wider educational landscape

The school library is undergoing a profound and necessary evolution. The words of Ranganathan (1892–1972, considered to be the ‘father of library science’) remain true to this day: ‘The...

The heart of learning: Spotlight on school libraries in the UK and Ireland

What if the most important room in a school isn’t a classroom, but the one that unlocks every other door to learning? In schools with well-funded and professionally staffed libraries, student...