Learning From Experience
How can we be the best professionals possible without making all the mistakes personally? It’s true that we can learn from our own mistakes. We have to recognize them, have the chance to reflect...
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The challenge of enabling Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) in higher education
My interest in the use of technology for learning originates from my initial professional role as a Clinical Diagnostic Radiographer. This led me on to teach Diagnostic Radiography and undertake...
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Initial teacher education is about ‘sojourning’: the role of universities in developing ‘know that’ to inform ‘know how’
Context: Educational Excellence Everywhere White Paper March 2016 The White paper proposes: a ‘new accreditation’ that’ will raise the quality and status of the teaching profession, better...
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Dorothy Heathcote’s Mantle of the Expert Approach to Learning
Dorothy Heathcote died in October 2011 at the age of 85. Although an academic for most of her life, first at Durham and then at Newcastle, Heathcote continued to teach in classrooms almost up...
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The Critical Global Educator: Global Citizenship Education as Sustainable Development
Globalisation, cyborg identities, potentially powerful social media oblige educators to deploy educational tools, toys, texts and technologies for oecumene, global bioethics, political justice for...
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Longitudinal research in naturalistic settings: A challenging endeavour
Conducting research in naturalistic settings is not as straightforward and orderly as described in research books and journal articles. In this blog post, I will briefly reflect on the challenges...
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Nationalism in History Education
Nationalist far-right parties have recently gained popularity in Europe and the United States. The current rise of xenophobic populism is connected to a broader backlash against changing...
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‘Beyond the Plateau’: Right Problem, Odd Solution
‘Beyond the Plateau’: The Case for an Institute of Advanced Teaching, published by the IPPR last week, identifies probably the key school-level challenge in improving educational outcomes and...
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This blog post follows up my initial thoughts concerning opportunities for change in August 2015 (https://www.bera.ac.uk/blog/an-opportunity-for-change). At that time, the opportunities in...
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