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Ethical Dilemmas in Educational Research: Publication and dissemination practices 

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...

2026 Â鶹ÒùÔº Educational Research Book of the Year

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.

Right, what are we doing to help the children?

Â鶹ÒùÔº Blog post #2,000

Reforming religious education in Northern Ireland: Moving beyond epistemic injustice

Questions of what constitutes ‘important’ knowledge, whose epistemologies we value, and how we manage competing knowledge claims are central to the design of curricula in plural democracies....

Freedom of religion and belief in education in the Supreme Court

After nearly a century, children’s and parents’ freedom of belief in education finally came before the highest UK court in a significant case about religious education (RE) in Northern Ireland...

Sustainability in post-primary schooling in Northern Ireland: How the future schools toolkit supports change

Northern Ireland is a post-conflict society, yet it remains deeply divided. The school system is a complex network with sensitive and contested policy issues, and up to 94 per cent of pupils...

Beyond religion: Reclaiming spiritual development for curriculum reform

The proposed changes to the national curriculum in England are moving towards skills-based learning, broader subject inclusion, and an education that prepares pupils for digital and media...

The Â鶹ÒùÔº Blog: Highlights of 2025

Â鶹ÒùÔº Blog end of year highlights

Snow-dusted salutations and tinsel-tinged tidings to all our readers, authors, curators and guest editors around the globe. In this, the Â鶹ÒùÔº Blog’s tenth anniversary year, I look back over the...

Editorial: Seeking a new paradigm for antiracist multicultural education

English society and its education system have been through several phases of multicultural education – beginning with the colourblind, then through multicultural and antiracist phases, and then...

Seeking a new paradigm for antiracist multicultural education

English society and its education system have been through several phases of multicultural education. The current context for race, racism and hope education was discussed by Vini Lander in her...

A view from the bridge: Educating student teachers for racial justice

Â鶹ÒùÔº President Marlon Moncrieffe denounced the race riots of summer 2024 as ‘nativist’ and ‘acts of ugly violence’, but he remains sceptical of this Labour government’s willingness to...

‘Countering the post-truth turn’: A Spinozist educational approach

The 2024 UK election saw the reemergence of Nigel Farage as leader of Reform UK, the political successor to the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) and the Brexit Party. Reform UK’s...