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Are we disconnected in world of connections?

An email message came round to the National Teaching Fellow (NTF) email list inviting us to write a blog article for Â鶹ÒùÔº and I jumped at the chance. The invitation hit me at the right moment and...

Annual Lecture

Just to remind people that the Annual Lecture scheduled for Tuesday 30th June has been cancelled due to unavoidable circumstances. We hope to rearrange in due course.

Using the physical environment to improve education

It might seem as if buildings, the physical location of education, are of only tangential interest to an education researcher: something that can be left to architects in the same way as the human...

Teaching Maths for Social Justice

Teaching mathematics is a social justice issue. Despite numerous calls from the mathematics education community, the curriculum in England remains stubbornly resistant to change. Too many...

Researching with young and developmentally young children: Ethical considerations, dilemmas and compromises

Highlights from the first 1,000 Â鶹ÒùÔº Blog posts

One of the most challenging considerations when researching with children is the question of gaining their consent to participate in research and their perspectives on the topic under study....

Creativity in the Primary Curriculum

 Registration online is now closed. However if you would still like to attend this event please email [email protected] by ASPE, this one day seminar is the third in the ASPE...

Against research methods courses in HE

It came as no surprise when I encountered a synthesis of 89 papers on research methods education in the social sciences including education (Earley, 2014) which found that students taking research...

Calling all independent researchers

A new forum for Â鶹ÒùÔº When we talk of research, we are probably assuming that Universities are the institutions that carry it out. But many who have been involved with universities are still...

Medical education. Where are we now and where are we going?

Medicine is the health profession, which completed its professionalization project first. That gave doctors exclusive rights to remunerative activities like prescribing and operating. Health...

Post 2015 general election thoughts…

In the post 2015 general election period there are a range of issues that we as researchers need to think about when we are writing about education policy. Let me illuminate these with one...

‘Teacher Education – what next?

Â鶹ÒùÔº held a successful event on 'Teacher Education - what next?' on 11th June 2015. Hosted and introduced by Lord Puttnam, a packed room heard Â鶹ÒùÔº President Ian Menter introduce the issue and...

‘What next for Teacher Education’?

As we welcome a new Government, the future of teacher education will no doubt once again be a point of contention. Please do join us at this event which aims to identify the challenges and some of...