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Documenting and dismantling language ideologies in education

10 years of the Â鶹ÒùÔº Blog

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...

Developing biliteracy through a traditional, cross-linguistic pedagogical approach

Cross-linguistic pedagogy, which involves using multiple languages in classrooms to foster literacy development by providing a ‘bridge between languages,’ has recently gained significant...

Sharon Feeney

Sharon Feeney teaches Strategic Management at Technological University Dublin. Sharon is the Head of Learning Development in the College of Business at the Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland....

A century of educating Britain’s political elite: Privilege masquerading as meritocracy?

In this blog post, we examine the UK secondary schools and universities that educated Cabinet ministers between 1922 and 2022. The UK seems widely relevant, as every country possesses elite...

John Hogan

John Hogan teaches Irish politics in Technological University Dublin. John is a Research Fellow and Politics Lecturer in the College of Business. He is also a founding director of the College’s...

Presidential Seminar Series: The Struggle for Curriculum Knowledge and Culture: What’s next for England?

Presidential Seminar Series 2024–2026

In July 2024 a newly elected Labour government announced an independent curriculum and assessment review for England spanning from Key Stage 1 through to Key Stage 5. The purpose of this exercise...

Developing student teachers’ confidence to teach languages through an authentic microteaching exercise

Compulsory languages teaching for primary teachers in Scotland Following the introduction of the Scottish Government’s 1+2 language policy in 2012, all primary teachers in Scotland are expected...

Â鶹ÒùÔº Early Career Researcher Network Symposium Series 2025

Every year, Â鶹ÒùԺ’s Early Career Researcher (ECR) Network runs an annual symposium series that spans the four nations and focuses on a particular theme. The ECR Network’s symposia series seeks...

The ‘Dear Researcher’ workshop on participatory research spaces at the Â鶹ÒùÔº 2024 conference: Insights and practical examples of researching with youth co-researchers

The ‘Dear Researcher’ workshop that I facilitated at the 2024 Â鶹ÒùÔº Conference, had developed through years of research working alongside children and young people as co-researchers. The...

Michèle Vincent

Michèle Vincent is a lecturer in Modern Languages and Education and is the subject lead for Education at the University of Glasgow’s School of Social and Environmental Sustainability. Her...

Spring 2025

Research Intelligence issue 162: International comparative education

Alice Little

Alice Little is a part-time postgraduate researcher in her fourth year at York St John University. Her research explores how children and young people experience engaging as co-researchers and how...