Wayfaring in the digital age: An innovative framing of researcher positionality

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‘My giant goes with me wherever I go.’ (Emerson, 1841, p. 36) American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) bemoans the fact that, when travelling, we cannot help but bring ourselves –...

Sub-Saharan faces in Caucasian spaces: Black African international PhD students’ experiences in the UK

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In the academic year 2020/2021, the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) documented a total of 605,000 international students who were enrolled in UK higher education institutions. Out of...

How we teach our teachers: The plight of initial teacher education in England and its global impact

‘Teaching is not a lost art but the regard for it is a lost tradition.’ (Barzun, 1954, p. 12)  As it was then for Jacques Barzun, so it is now for the state of teaching in England. How we...

Teacher agency: The missing data

There is a growing body of literature that reconceptualises teacher agency through an ecological lens, encapsulating the temporal, contextual and relational dimensions of agency (see for example...

Unlocking the power of immigrant teachers: Transforming education

Today’s superdiverse educational landscape, marked by a global teacher shortage crisis worsened by Covid-19, heightens the demand for educators, especially in countries like Australia and the...

Identifying school-based teacher educators’ professional learning needs

Globally, there is a growing focus on school-based teacher education models (Lunenberg et al., 2014). The ‘pendulum swing’ between theory and practice has made schools and teachers far more...

Under surveillance?

On 30 September 2023 the Observer newspaper reported that the UK government has been keeping files on the social media activity of ‘education critics’ and ‘at least nine experts’ have been...

Growing up green: What value is placed on accessing outdoor environments across different childcare and educational settings?

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It is well known that spending time in nature is beneficial for children (Chawla, 2015). However, in Britain, children now spend less time outside than previous generations (Moss, 2012), which has...

Engaging low-income families in education research: An interdisciplinary exploratory study

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Our comparative research project considered the challenges encountered when engaging low-income families in education research in the UK and China. In this blog post we highlight the context,...