TEAN: Let’s talk about evidence-informed teaching
The Teacher Education Advancement Network, in association with Critical Publishing You can join the day in person or by way of a Skype link. Further details below. This event is relevant to...
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TEAN: Let’s talk about supporting mental health and wellbeing as part of effective learning and teaching
The Teacher Education Advancement Network You can join the day in person or by way of a Skype link. Further details below. This event is relevant to early, middle and advanced career teacher...
Refocusing schools as ‘learning organisations’: A new direction for school improvement?
How are successful schools measured? By being judged ‘1’ by Ofsted? By excellent SATs or A-level results in a single year? By being popular with parents and having buoyant admissions? No. It...
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The experiences and ‘light-bulb moment’ of an early career researcher following a BERA Postgraduate Forum symposium
Though I didn’t realise it at the time, studying while working in the early years sector marked the emergence of my research interests. I was a practitioner at the forefront of new government...
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Towards inclusive and equitable quality education for all: To borrow or not to borrow?
One of the Millennium Development Goals set by the United Nations (UN) in 2000 concerns achieving universal primary education (United Nations, 2015b). Since then, systemic changes have been...
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Preventing what? The flawed assumptions at the heart of the Prevent duty
The Prevent duty (2009, 2011, 2015) is a statutory requirement upon all educational professionals to have due regard to prevent individuals being drawn into terrorism. Criticisms of the Prevent...
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Telling stories: How can narrative practices better support education professionals during times of transition?
Why is identity problematic for teacher educators? Identity transformation for early-career teacher educators has been shown to be problematic in the move from ‘expert teacher’ to ‘novice...
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Survey dissemination, school hierarchy and teacher voice
Can we obtain a greater insight into management in schools by asking those whose are being managed? Given the widespread silencing or marginalisation of teacher voice (Courtney and Gunter, 2015;...
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Developing an ethics framework for school based research in the context of a large academy secondary school
Homewood School and Sixth Form Centre is a Secondary School Academy in rural Kent. I have been working as a Teacher Researcher at Homewood since 2014, and during that time I have produced a...
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The self-improving school system from the classroom out
When thought about at the level of the school or classroom, the self-improving school system involves teachers collaboratively engaging in evidence-informed practice to improve teaching and...
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Valuing curriculum research: Taking a second look
In an age of research excellence assessment, what type of curriculum research is valued? The field of curriculum research is varied. There are scholars whose work is renowned internationally and...
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Examining the representation of fundamental British values: What are the most prominent images used for display boards in the primary school?
It is observable that display boards are being applied widely by primary schools as visual representations for learning about the stated fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law,...
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