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This piece focuses on the challenges of applying Western theoretical concepts in non-Western contexts – particularly through a retroductive approach applied to higher education (HE) research in...
Continue reading blog postManipulatives are objects that can be handled and moved and are used to develop learners’ understanding of a mathematical situation (Griffiths et al., 2017). The popular...
Continue reading blog postWhen selecting a school for children, parents ask a fundamental yet profound question: Why should we enrol our child in your school? This concern transcends borders, reflecting universal...
Continue reading blog postAs researchers in higher education (HE) we find ourselves interested in the ‘Scholarship of Teaching and Learning’ (SoTL) (Felton, 2013). While difficult to pin-down, SoTL is both ‘field’...
Continue reading blog postScientific interest in the topic of teacher autonomy has grown in recent years in research publications across both international and local literature. This growing attention may be due to the...
Continue reading blog postEnglish 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...
Continue reading blog postRacist, Islamophobic violence terrorised citizens in around 27 UK locations during the race riots of August 2024. Reports of well-known far-right figures encouraging involvement, coupled with...
Continue reading blog postMinoritised teachers are less likely to stay in teaching than their White counterparts, citing the added burden of racism as a contributing factor (Worth et al., 2022). Ethnic minoritised staff...
Continue reading blog postBERA 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...
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