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In my doctoral research I focus on alternative outdoor early childhood provision in Scotland. I foreground a sociomaterial approach to understand how young children’s subjectivity, related to...
Continue reading blog postDecades of research have sought to unpack the challenges of balancing programme integrity and school adaptation when taking educational interventions to scale. Professor emeritus Larry Cuban from...
Continue reading blog postThis blog post explores the concepts of special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and intersectionality, and highlights the importance of having an awareness of how these are linked. I...
Continue reading blog postOn 24 March 2022, the British Curriculum Forum (BCF) ran the Spotlight on SEND: Curriculum Design and Practice online event. The event focused attention on research-informed curriculum design and...
Continue reading blog postAs chair of parallel session B for the BCF Spotlight on SEND event in March 2022, it was my pleasure to introduce the speakers and to field questions from the audience. In addition to the other...
Continue reading blog postTo think like a detective gives teachers both a memorable metaphor for inquiry and a compelling methodology that leads to effective inclusive teaching. Like expert detectives, expert teachers...
Continue reading blog postCommunication between teacher and pupil is vital to pupil learning in the classroom. Usually, the focus is concentrated on the development of a pupil’s communication skills and not those of the...
Continue reading blog postI feel that the equity versus equality ‘debate’ (Baily & Holmarsdottir, 2015; Bird, 2018) is more than pertinent when any discussion about autistic inclusion takes place. The idea that all...
Continue reading blog postSupporting student teachers and teachers to enact inclusive approaches in Scottish schools is a significant part of the Scottish Universities Inclusion Group’s (SUIG) work. SUIG is a...
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