‘Just say something!’
As schools and colleges resume after the summer holiday, one issue is certain. With a child bereaved of a parent every 22 minutes in the UK, many teachers will be faced with supporting a grieving...
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Positionality and practitioner research: Schoolteachers’ experiences of professional doctorates in education
Introduction The growth, internationally, in professional doctorates over the past 25 years has been well documented, as are the forms, fields and disciplines that such doctorates embrace....
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Effective entrepreneurship education: The role of individual traits, creativity and passion for learning
Entrepreneurship is an important tool for reducing unemployment, speeding up economic growth, and fostering innovation and social reform; hence, entrepreneurship is now recognised as a valuable...
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Education for sustainable development in higher education: Insights from a futures study
Higher education (HE) has a key role in supporting sustainable development (Walsh, 2022). Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) enables individuals to act and make informed decisions that...
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L2 proficiency, age of L2 acquisition, and working memory: Evidence from Mandarin–English bilingual students
Working memory (WM) is a limited-capacity mechanism that temporarily stores information in the mind and manipulates it when it is no longer perceptually present (Cowan, 2008). WM abilities have...
Continue reading blog postMaking the case for academic oracy: If it’s a game-changer for schooling, what about for university?
Keir Starmer’s announcement of Labour’s ambition for speaking lessons to be a central part of school curricula, and as a social mobility strategy, signals a return to prominence for oracy...
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Maybe they should all be cats? Designing a persuasive game for teacher recruitment
The teaching workforce is looking increasingly unsettled, in a time when schools and students most need stability. The exigent nature of STEM teacher recruitment in England is hard to miss, with...
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GCSEs and test anxiety: Exploring secondary teachers’ perspectives
The government took the next step in getting back to ‘normal’ in 2023, as students in England sat examinations subject to pre-pandemic assessment routines for the first time. In so doing, the...
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Primary school exclusion: The erosion of care in a performance-focused education system
Up until the Covid-19 pandemic, the number of children being excluded from primary school had been steadily rising (DfE, 2022). Now that schools are again operating as ‘normal’, those...
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