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Remaining hopeful: Countering the dominant narratives about teacher education

BERA Conference 2024 and WERA Focal Meeting

Despite ‘teacher educators [being ] crucial players for maintaining – and improving – the high quality of the teaching workforce’ (European Commission, 2013, p. 4), the experiences of...

Transforming teacher education through transdisciplinary communities of practice for sustainability education

BERA Conference 2024 and WERA Focal Meeting

Education is vital for the urgently needed transition to more fair and sustainable futures. However, in order to fulfil this potential, education itself must be transformed. Teachers are central...

Exploring burnout among Latin American teachers during the Covid-19 pandemic

BERA Conference 2024 and WERA Focal Meeting

The Covid-19 pandemic has reshaped many aspects of our lives, but few have felt its impact as acutely as educators. Overnight, teachers across Latin America were thrust into a new reality,...

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...

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...

Curriculum in a Changing World

50 think pieces on education, policy, practice, innovation & inclusion

Teacher recruitment in England: What are schools in disadvantaged areas doing to attract new staff?

England, like many other countries across the world, is facing a crisis in teacher retention and recruitment. Newly published projections from the National Foundation for Educational Research...

Autumn 2024

Research Intelligence issue 160: Democracy & education

Learning classroom management in the workplace: How to support student teachers

In September 2023, I successfully defended my PhD dissertation on student teachers’ classroom management (CM) learning during their internship. In the Netherlands, student teachers finalise...

Guest editing opportunity for Research Intelligence, issue 162

International comparative education

We know it is important, but… Head teachers’ perspectives on primary physical education

The value of Primary physical education (PE) has been a ‘hot topic’ for decades, as the subject has become awash, within the UK context, with government interest, policy and funding....

Exploring how teaching assistants powered by AI can understand and support students

Artificial intelligence in educational research and practice

Educational digital assistants designed to understand and support students emotionally as well as academically are increasingly becoming a vital tool in learning environments. These assistants are...