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Playful Learning and Curriculum

Play has a vital role in helping us live happy and healthy lives. Engaging the imagination in playful learning is crucial in helping us make sense of things, and in fostering the creativity and...

Dadan Nugraha

Dadan Nugraha is currently a PhD student in Education at Queen’s University Belfast, United Kingdom. Dadan is an awardee of MORA-LPDP Scholarship funded by the government of the Republic of...

Candace Nolan-Grant

Candace has worked in higher education for over twenty years and is currently a senior learning designer at Durham University. She is a part-time Phd student in the Durham School of Education,...

Amanda Anderson

What schools want: Recruiting senior leaders in England

In an increasingly fragmented and competitive education system, recruiting the ‘best’ school leaders is based on fabricated notions of leadership. A recent job advert earned derision for being...

Noel Dempsey

Noel Dempsey is a lecturer in football coaching and management at the University Campus of Football Business (UCFB). His research interests centre around formal coach education and the wider...

Kelly Stokes

Kelly has been in education for over 20 years working in a variety of roles from Teacher, Headteacher and Director of Primary Improvement for a Multi Academy Trust. Currently, she is working on...

Playful Learning and Curriculum

Play has a vital role in helping us live happy and healthy lives. Engaging the imagination in playful learning is crucial in helping us make sense of things, and in fostering the creativity and...

Rhona Black

Rhona Black is from Dounby Community School. With Islean Gibson, she is in the thick of developing learner-led action research across the school. As a team, Rhona and Islean have been exploring...

Debbie Bogard

Debbie Bogard has taught history and politics in further education (FE) and secondary school settings for 25 years. Debbie leads on teacher development and practitioner research in her current FE...

Cathy Clarkson

Cathy Clarkson started teaching English as a Foreign Language in China before returning to England, where she has worked in Further Education, initially teaching ESOL and later moving into initial...

Making connections when teaching mathematics: The role of teacher knowledge and beliefs

Mathematical ideas, concepts or procedures are interconnected; they therefore cannot be understood well in isolation. Mathematical connections made in the classroom give students opportunities to...