Tackling educational inequality
The questions, ‘What does the empirical evidence tell us about the achievement gap?’ and ‘What is proven good practice for closing the gap in educational inequality?’, are the subject of...
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How research can inform teachers and teaching in schools
Despite renewed efforts in many countries to align educational practice more closely with findings from educational research, there is little clarity about how teachers can, in principle, use...
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Yes, they can! Teachers and learners as language curriculum developers
In contexts in which English as a foreign language is a mandatory subject in secondary education, language learning motivation can be a challenge for teachers and ministerial curriculum...
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Spotlight on mental health and education: New special interest group hosts inaugural conference
Over 80 delegates attended the first conference of the recently launched Mental Health, Wellbeing and Education special interest group (SIG) at the University of West London (UWL) in July. The...
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The use of technology in education and its potential to heal liberated Iraq
While information and communication technology (ICT) has been integrated into education for the last three decades in many parts of the world, this has not been the case in Iraq. ICT was...
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The experiences of teachers who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer (LGBTQ+)
The recent protests in England outside primary schools about teaching children about the full spectrum of relationships are a significant concern (Kotecha, 2019). Schools have a duty to promote...
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Editorial: Practitioner research and commentary in a networked society
Over the past decade, self-published polemic on education topics has become widely disseminated through a burgeoning culture of social media, and has increasingly challenged the products of...
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Pedagogic appropriateness: Judging quality in practitioner enquiry
Most teachers would not dream of giving a non-reader a text-heavy piece of comprehension with 20 or more questions to answer without some support or scaffolding, if at all. Neither would we ask...
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Synergising research in early childhood education: Creating a collaborative space between close-to-practice research and academia
Since the turn of the 21st century there has been a push for teaching to become a research-based profession in a way that is practically relevant to the classroom. The recent research report...
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