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Teaching professionalism in Norway and Brazil: Why combine concepts and compare countries?

This blog post will address two questions: When studying the teaching profession, why combine the concepts of teacher autonomy and teacher agency? And why compare such different national settings...

Usha Goswami

Prior to moving to Cambridge in January 2003, Usha Goswami was Professor of Cognitive Developmental Psychology at the Institute of Child Health, University College London. She received her Ph.D....

Educational Technology – SIG Convenor vacancy

Call for SIG Convenor The purpose of the Educational Technology SIG is to provide a meeting place for Â鶹ÒùÔº members interested in the application and impact of new technologies in education across...

Ian Menter

University of Oxford

Ian is former President of Â鶹ÒùÔº, 2013-2015. At OUDE he was Director of Professional Programmes and led the development of the Oxford Education Deanery. Before moving to Oxford, Ian was Professor...

2020 Â鶹ÒùÔº Council Elections

Following a very competitive election, we are delighted to announce the outcome of the 2020 Â鶹ÒùÔº Elections. The election for Council was highly competitive and three candidates have been...

Ana Lucia Lennert da Silva

Ana Lucia Lennert da Silva is a PhD candidate at the Department of Social and Educational Sciences, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences. Her interests concern studying education from the...

Collaborative composition and touchscreen technology in the classroom

The opportunity to make music together is an important strand of every child’s education, fuelling creative, expressive and social development. A recent report by the Musicians’ Union (2019)...

Literacy and Language – SIG Convenor vacancy

Call for SIG Convenor Members of this SIG have interests in exploring the relationship between language and literacy and work in related fields, such as cultural studies and multi-modality (the...

Tender: A literature review to understand the structures and processes that influence research activities in the UK

One strand of Â鶹ÒùԺ’s work historically has been a role in charting the state of educational research in the UK. For example, the Â鶹ÒùÔº Observatory (Oancea and Mills, 2015) which was an initiative...

A real, immersive and purposeful curriculum

In a primary school context of nine academies in the West Midlands, our curriculum framework is underpinned by theories from John Dewey’s 20th-century approach to project-based learning (PBL)....

Lisa Worgan

Lisa Worgan is currently the head of curriculum and innovation for Victoria Academies Trust, a primary-led academy chain in the West Midlands. For the last six years, Lisa has been responsible for...

Curriculum, Assessment and Pedagogy – SIG Convenor vacancy

Call for SIG Convenor The aim of the Curriculum, Assessment and Pedagogy (CAP) SIG is to encourage and support research and other scholarly activity in the inter-related areas of curriculum,...