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Â鶹ÒùÔº celebrates 10 years of the Â鶹ÒùÔº Blog
2025 marks 10 years of the Â鶹ÒùÔº Blog, and we’re so proud of all that it has accomplished!
Thank you to all those who have contributed to the Blog, whether as authors, editors, or readers.
The Â鶹ÒùÔº Blog was established in 2015 to provide research informed content on key educational issues in an accessible manner. The aim is to produce and promote articles that attract academics, policymakers, parents, teachers, educational leaders, members of school communities, politicians and anyone who is interested in education today. The Blog is edited by a small team combining academic representatives chosen by Â鶹ÒùÔº’s Publications Committee and the Â鶹ÒùÔº office.
Scroll down below to explore the various content and activities we have prepared for the Â鶹ÒùÔº Blog’s 10th anniversary.
Â鶹ÒùÔº Blog 10th birthday cake at Â鶹ÒùÔº Council Away Day 2025
10 years of the Â鶹ÒùÔº Blog
This blog series celebrates one decade of the Â鶹ÒùÔº Blog, as an important and growing space to explore current and varied issues and questions of concern to the education community. To mark this...
Reflecting on education policy from across the UK
Education policy in the UK is characterised by change, churn and disruption as successive governments somewhat inevitably recognise ‘problems’ in education to be ‘fixed’ with different...
Documenting and dismantling language ideologies in education
Over the past few years, I have carried out extensive fieldwork in secondary schools in England, where my focus has been the beliefs about spoken language on display in classrooms, corridors and...
Ready for a new turn in teacher education?
This year I retired from my role in teacher education and research, seven years after becoming a professor, and 30 years after mentoring my first student teacher. In the English context I was not...
Curriculum making: A brief history and future directions
The term ‘curriculum making’ is becoming increasingly common in educational policy and practice. It is a concept with a long tradition in curriculum studies, going back to the foundational...
Breaking the link between poverty and lower educational outcomes: Some reflections from Wales
Context Throughout the history of Â鶹ÒùÔº and indeed the Â鶹ÒùÔº Blog, research on the association between living in poverty and not doing well educationally has been a continuing focus. In Wales,...
Tracing the footsteps of anti-racism: From my journey to our collective responsibility
Reflecting on my own educational and professional journey – from my time as a teenager, as an undergraduate student teacher, and now as a professor in England – it is clear how crucial it is...
Decoloniality and education: Seeing and knowing beyond the locus of enunciation
This blog post presents decoloniality as education in being emancipated ontologically in sense and epistemological enlightenment. Seeing and knowing beyond the locus of enunciation What is the...
Opening the black box of evidence, urgently
The idea that education should be or become an evidence-based profession has been around for several decades and is still gaining in popularity in many countries around the world. The idea of...
Environmental (in)justices and education: A decolonial perspective
While our ongoing triple planetary crisis (climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste) has been gaining importance within education, recent reviews (such as Perkins,...