Annabel Watson
I am a Senior Lecturer researching writing development, and teaching across MA and initial teacher education programmes. I also supervise several doctoral students working in writing pedagogy,...
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We need to talk about language: The researcher view
Coming from a background in community learning and development, my work in partnership with Banff Academy as part of my PhD research has been an interesting and rewarding experience. I find myself...
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Developing readers, developing selves
The process of reading actually changes the neural connections in our brains, enabling new thought processes to form and develop our thinking (Wolf, 2008). Indeed, the experience and act of...
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Shifting power in children’s literature: Story Makers Press
Literary criticism of children’s literature focusses on the power relations between the adult writer and the child reader. At one end of the spectrum, this relationship is described as...
Continue reading blog postResearching Poetry at GCSE and A Level: Anthologies and Aesthetics in the teaching of poetry
RESEARCH SEMINAR: Research has shown that poetry is an aspect of English which both teachers and students of the subject tend to feel ambivalent about. The way in which poetry (at GCSE and A Level...
English in Education – Curriculum and Assessment
Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk for details of how to register onsite. This one-day event provides a forum for...
English literature: An aesthetic form of knowledge
English literature was introduced as an essential component of Britain’s school curriculum in the early 20th century as part of a broader effort to create, inter alia, an education system based...
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The ambiguities of knowledge, expertise and purpose
In a recent BERA blog, ‘The neglect of practice’ (14 December 2018; see also Hordern 2018), Jim Hordern argued that we need to consider not just what teachers do when they teach, but what...
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W(h)ither Media in English: considering the future of media work in the English curriculum
Over the last few years teaching about media texts has been ‘disappeared’ from English. It does not appear in the National Curriculum and does not feature in the relatively new GCSE...
Looking back on an event-full 2018
A year that championed educational research and its impact is now gone into the ether. We worked with our brilliant SIG convenors, partners and speakers to ply you with useful and enjoyable events...
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Phonics ‘first and fast’… but at what cost?
Reading is one of life’s profound joys. According to reading expert Maryanne Wolf, reading changes the very structure of our brain and neural pathways; the act allows us to go beyond our own...
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Regeneration, re-education and an anthem for peace: Insights for education from the re-education of Wilfred Owen during his 1917 convalescence at Craiglockhart War Hospital
From 26 June until early November 1917 2nd Lt Wilfred Owen of the Manchester Regiment convalesced at Craiglockhart War Hospital, Edinburgh. There is limited focus on Owen’s time in Scotland, but...
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