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Aesthetic education: Recent thoughts on old problems

Aesthetic education is usually concerned with the role of arts appreciation in students’ personal development. Its advocates often pitch it in opposition to instrumentalism, but in doing so,...

Jonathan Doney

Jonathan Doney is a lecturer in education policy and history of education at the University of Exeter. His post-doctoral work, funded by a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship, focuses on...

Oli Belas

Dr Oli Belas is a senior lecturer in the School of Education and English at the University of Bedfordshire. He has teaching and research interests in various areas of English, creative writing,...

2020 Â鶹ÒùÔº Vice-President Election

Could you be the next Â鶹ÒùÔº President ? We are currently looking for expressions of interest for the next Â鶹ÒùÔº President between 2021-2022 succeeding Dominic Wyse when his term finishes. You would...

Pauline Taylor-Guy

Director

Professor Pauline Taylor-Guy is currently the Director of the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) Institute and Centre for School and System Improvement (CSSI). The Centre provides...

2020 Â鶹ÒùÔº Publications Chair Election

We are pleased invite our members to apply to become Â鶹ÒùÔº's Publications Committee Chair, succeeding Vivienne Baumfield whose term will shortly come to an end. The role will commence in September...

The mental health of LGBTQ+ students in higher education

In a previous Â鶹ÒùÔº Blog we highlighted evidence of an anti-LGBTQ+ discourse in England and within schools internationally. In other research we have highlighted the link between LGBTQ+ identities...

Philosophy of Education – SIG Convenor vacancy

Call for SIG Convenor The Philosophy of Education SIG seek to foster debate on philosophically interesting issues pertaining to education, and to bring philosophical methods and sensibilities to...

What I meant and the respondent assumed: Improving survey questions with cognitive interviews

When we gather survey data about human perceptions and attitudes, do we elicit answers to what we really ask? How far can self-administered questionnaires (Schwarz, 1999), with no interviewer...

Post-Compulsory and Lifelong Learning – SIG Convenor vacancy

Call for SIG Convenor The Post-Compulsory and Lifelong Learning SIG aims:  to facilitate and stimulate debate amongst researchers in the field and assist them in communicating their work to...

Total recall? The ITE content framework, research and teachers’ understandings of learning

The key teacher education policy issue at the 2019 general election is the initial teacher education (ITE) content framework for England, rushed out in the dying hours of the Conservative...

Sexualities and Gender – SIG Convenor vacancy

Call for SIG Convenor The Sexualities and Gender SIG aims: to support work with by scholars and practitioners in shaping theory, policy and practice in the field of sexualities research in...