Does environmental activism have a place within education?

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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns that the pace and scale of current action to limit global warming is inadequate – but that urgent climate action can secure a liveable...

What makes students curious about science?

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‘It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of enquiry’, Einstein is reported to have said. Given...

Young professionals as development agents: Change makers in education (CMIE) programme for doing development differently

To realise the goals of achieving Sustainable Development Goal number four (that is, the importance of quality education for all) different participatory development approaches (Cornwall, 2011)...

The grass ceiling: Contextualising English rural/urban educational outcomes

The traditional narrative of urban–rural educational disadvantage is that urban pupils do less well in the English exam system. Decontextualised data (as exemplified in table 1 across different...

Contemplating the potential influence of typological relatedness on bilingual learners’ L2 preliteracy acquisition

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A survey of research on the acquisition of preliteracy skills in children’s first language (L1) has provided an important starting point from which the unique circumstances of bilingual children...

Anomie in the UK: What’s holding back the ideas-informed society?

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On less optimistic days, we might reflect that for some in society, the social fabric that binds us together is currently not only fraying but unravelling. This leads us to question what it would...

Dyslexia misconceptions among dyslexia assessors

Dyslexia is a learning difficulty characterised by challenges in reading and spelling despite adequate learning opportunities, and in the absence of other cognitive (such as ADHD) or sensory...

A critical authenticity: Facilitating teacher self-articulation through poetic inquiry

Have you ever wondered what is in a teacher’s bag? The following is a ‘found’1 poem compiled from the chat transcript of one of the four online poetry workshops which formed a part of the...

‘SEN Co’ or ‘SEN Do’? The future of special educational needs co-ordination without postgraduate study

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Over the past 40 years the role and identity of the special educational needs co-ordinator (SENCo) in England has changed significantly from the remedial teacher pre 1980s to specialist teacher...