Manipulatives: Using pedagogy to drive practice
Manipulatives 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...
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What do Pakistani parents look for in schools?
When 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...
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Could cross-education sector collaboration around ‘scholarship’ boost educational research in the UK?
As 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’...
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Teacher autonomy in education: Key insights and how to promote it
Scientific 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...
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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...
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Disrupting disinformation: How ‘Schools Linking’ reduces vulnerability to divisive narratives
Racist, 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...
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Controversial issues in schools: A consideration for staff wellbeing
Minoritised 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...
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A view from the bridge: Educating student teachers for racial justice
BERA 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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White working-class children’s underachievement in England and Northern Ireland: Continuing challenges and implications for policy and practice to close the attainment gap
In the first decade of this millennium local government researchers in London and Birmingham, England, put their heads above the parapet to address the issue of White working-class children’s...
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