The winds of change can be welcome, pushing you to a better world. For many teachers in Wales today the current climate feels more like a storm. In 1999 the first elections to the newly...
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Over at least the last 40 years education policies in the United Kingdom have been seeking to make schools become more effective in meeting increasingly demanding political expectations. We have,...
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Teacher leadership is a term which is increasingly being used in Scottish educational policy and the Scottish College for Educational Leadership (SCEL) has been tasked with supporting the...
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Recent curriculum policy in the UK and elsewhere (e.g. Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence, Successful Futures in Wales, and the New Zealand Curriculum Framework) marks a significant departure...
Continue reading blog postIn 2013 a group of international teacher educators met at the AERA conference to discuss the lack of attention teacher educators as a professional group received from policy makers and...
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In the wake of terror attacks in London and Manchester in 2017, concerns have been raised about the extent to which governmental strategies to combat terrorism are successful in preventing...
Continue reading blog postAs technology has become increasingly integrated into all aspects of university teaching, the tools and strategies available to support assessment have increased and evolved. Despite these...
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Figure 1: Two avatars meeting in the virtual world Second Life, in a virtual space owned by Imperial College London Our study recently published in the British Journal of Educational...
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The early years education field has always emphasised the holistic nature of early development and learning despite the continued prevalence of separate subject- or development-based domains...
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