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When and where do adults read? For how long at a time? Answers to these questions might be helpful in finding ways for more adults to incorporate reading for pleasure into their busy everyday...
Continue reading blog postWhat children say about books: 'I can drain all my emotions out on the book, so if I’ve had a hard day, I can just read’ ‘It’s quite nice to sort of feel like you’re sort of letting go...
Continue reading blog postHow diverse practices, perspectives and experiences shape our reading engagement
Reading fiction has a range of established benefits for learning, providing a strong foundation for the development of vocabulary knowledge and literacy-related skills (Mar & Rain, 2015; Mol &...
Continue reading blog postAdolescence is a significant period of identity development and social exploration, and narrative fiction can help adolescent readers to explore personally meaningful content (Picton & Clark,...
Continue reading blog postAugmented reality (AR) books offer new opportunities for interaction and engagement, augmenting a traditional paper book with digital features such as animations, sounds and graphics to provide a...
Continue reading blog postResearch has found adolescence (specifically 12–16 years old) to be associated with declines in reading motivation, enjoyment, attitude, frequency and engagement (see for example Clark, 2019)....
Continue reading blog postThis seminar will provide an opportunity to hear from contributing authors to the recently published Special Issue of The Curriculum Journal, decolonial and anti-racist perspectives in teacher...
This seminar provided an opportunity to hear from contributing authors to the recently published Special Issue of The Curriculum Journal, decolonial and anti-racist perspectives in teacher...
We used an umbrella theme of ‘Beyond ‘Navel Gazing’ (Tummons 2007): Autoethnography as a Catalyst for Change’ to anchor all activities during the next year. This theme is flexible and...
Claire Hedges is the Manager of the Centre for the Study of Global Development at The Open University. She has over 17 years of global teacher development and programme management experience, with...
The British prime minister, Rishi Sunak, lately announced his ambition ‘to move towards all children studying some form of maths to 18’ (Sunak, 2023), prompting questions about what maths this...
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