The essence of social pedagogy
This short text aims to shed some light on the education of first year child welfare pedagogues in Norway. These are undergraduates and social pedagogy is mandated in their education and...
Continue reading blog postThis short text aims to shed some light on the education of first year child welfare pedagogues in Norway. These are undergraduates and social pedagogy is mandated in their education and...
Continue reading blog postI read with great interest Ali Messer’s BERA blog (4th August 2016) which accords with the findings and recommendations arising from my research on the development of subject knowledge for...
Continue reading blog postI have been pondering the effect of the neo-liberal economic and social world order on education and everyday life. In many ways the neo-liberal mantra is accepted as a kind of monolith – a...
Continue reading blog postThis blog explores some of the key findings from the book ‘Leading in Early Childhood’, by Geraldine Davis, Anglia Ruskin University and Gemma Ryder, University of East London. Our research...
Continue reading blog postSince 2013, the Wales Institute of Social & Economic Research Data & Methods (WISERD) has conducted research with pupils, teachers and parents in 29 primary and secondary schools throughout Wales....
Continue reading blog postWe are all familiar with the term engagement when couples become betrothed but recently along with facilitated and flipped learning it has become another “buzz word” in education. More...
Continue reading blog postFollowing the release of the Department for Education’s Green Paper, “Schools That Work For Everyone”, commentary in the media and among educational commentators has focused primarily on the...
Continue reading blog postAlthough women constitute more than half of the secondary teaching workforce in the UK, they continue to be underrepresented in senior leadership, especially headship. There are multifarious...
Continue reading blog postHistory teachers, teacher-researchers, government agencies and history education academics in England often report that students are frequently incapable of producing complex, developmental...
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