Judging teaching effectiveness during initial teacher education: Examining the duplexity of professional judgment and consistency

BERA Conference 2024 and WERA Focal Meeting

In today’s educational landscape where accountability reigns, assessing teaching effectiveness has become a focal point in initial teacher education (ITE). With increased scrutiny and...

How the centralisation of multi-academy trusts is silencing local voices in England

BERA Conference 2024 and WERA Focal Meeting

Multi-academy trusts (MATs) are charitable bodies responsible for overseeing and governing a group of schools or academies in England. Funding for MATs is delivered directly from the government...

What makes school a good place for LGBTQ+ young people?

BERA Conference 2024 and WERA Focal Meeting

The first phase of my PhD focused on what LGBTQ+ young people in the UK thought schools could do to make it a good place for LGBTQ+ students. I also sought the perspectives of secondary school...

Schooling in a ‘divided’ city: Exploring reparative justice in education

BERA Conference 2024 and WERA Focal Meeting

The Reparative Futures of Education (Repair-Ed) project explores the geographic production of injustices in primary school education in the city of Bristol, England. We consider how ‘geographic...

Storytelling in music education

Storytelling is an exciting and powerful way of approaching education research that has the potential to explore the professional lives of educators in a meaningful way. Over time, I have gained...

The impact of culture on teachers’ professional identity in Oman

This blog post is based on one of the findings from my PhD research, which highlights teachers’ identification of their professionalism in the research context of Oman. Teacher professionalism...

Future-ready business schools: Harnessing simulation games for assessment and a global working environment

This blog post aims to illustrate how business schools can use simulation games as an assessment tool to provide authentic real-world situations. In essence, simulations and games replicate...

Reflections on the relationships between research and agency in geography teacher education

Geography teacher educators (GTEs) do important work. They have roles in recruiting, teaching and assessing beginning teachers, in mentor education, and in supervising practitioner enquiries and...

Amplifying the invisible, the overlooked and marginalised: Methods that support children in sharing their lived experiences of racism

For social justice to emerge, society must re-focus on whose voices are heard. If you are a researcher who does not belong to the marginalised group you are working with, it can be challenging to...