How do researchers make ethical decisions about sharing their work, and who gets to access the knowledge they produce? In this episode, we explore alternative approaches to publication and...
This award celebrates the publication of educational research and is awarded to a scholarly book on education deemed to be high quality, engaging and innovative.
We are recruiting a SIG Convenor for the English in Education SIG to help lead the SIG over the next 3 years. If multiple expressions of interest are received an election may be run. The...
Over the past decade, English (as a curriculum subject) has been stripped of its soul and creativity. What was once a subject that celebrated imagination and voice has been reduced to a sterile...
It's an exciting but challenging time for those in the subject English community: 2026 has been designated the National Year of Reading; curriculum developments resulting from the Curriculum &...
In today’s fast-changing world, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) teachers face mounting pressures – from new technologies to shifting student needs and rising...
The powerful, student-led calls for a racially just English literature curriculum that emerged from the 2020 Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement have been systematically subdued (see Boakye, 2022)....
What if the most important room in a school isn’t a classroom, but the one that unlocks every other door to learning? In schools with well-funded and professionally staffed libraries, student...
What if the most important room in a school isn’t a classroom, but the one that unlocks every other door to learning? In schools with well-funded and professionally staffed libraries, student...
In this blog post, two headteachers share their experiences of building thriving school libraries which nurture students’ wellbeing and love of reading. The effectiveness of school libraries is...
Growing up, I did not have a good experience with my school library. It was cold and unfriendly, and did not offer anything interesting to me. In my opinion, this is because we did not have a...