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When walking on marshland, occasionally expect to lose your wellies

A consistent refrain of colleagues is that research ethics committees seem to be committed to stopping research. Nothing could be further from the truth. The contemporary research ethics committee...

Aesthetic education: Recent thoughts on old problems

Aesthetic education is usually concerned with the role of arts appreciation in students’ personal development. Its advocates often pitch it in opposition to instrumentalism, but in doing so,...

Philosophy of Education – SIG Convenor vacancy

Call for SIG Convenor The Philosophy of Education SIG seek to foster debate on philosophically interesting issues pertaining to education, and to bring philosophical methods and sensibilities to...

Practical and useful research? First, sort out the theory

Researchers need to begin by examining their theories to enable them to control their research, and avoid the risk of being misled by unexamined beliefs.

Janet Orchard

Senior Lecturer

Dr Janet Orchard is an associate professor of philosophy and religion in teacher education at the University of Bristol. She is interested in ethical deliberation in teacher education,...

The language that affirms gendered violence in schools

Those who study and work within education know that it is not just the explicit, intentional content that is taught in schools and that results in learning. Moment-to-moment transfers of meaning...

Are you experienced?

'An honest engagement with Dewey’s theory of experience can provide educators with useful questions about how to create meaningful educational experiences.'

Co-teaching and 21st century pedagogy

Co-teaching provides a collaborative pedagogy in initial teacher education, whereby co-teachers share expertise to: improve the learning environment for students, and develop each other’s...

Curriculum is – or should be – at the heart of educational practice

New forms of national curriculum emerging worldwide have shifted the focus from input regulation – detailed specification of content to be taught – to output regulation – evaluation of the...

Challenging consumerism through education as human development

The culture of transforming everything into products to be ‘consumed by the market’ is manifesting itself as a global pathology. This trend is destroying longstanding communities of practice...

What is school science for?

Science is now being taught to more pupils than at any time in history. This has come about in part because governments across the world have acknowledged the importance of science and technology...

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...