Year 3 student career choices: Exploring societal changes in constructions of masculinity and femininity in career choice justifications

Gender stereotypes continue to play a significant role in how children imagine their future careers, and in the long term, these stereotypes may limit opportunities for both boys and girls. We...

Evaluating curricular and pedagogical practices of internationalisation in higher education: A postcolonial perspective

Problem Many British and Sino-British universities offer postgraduate programmes in education to contribute to internationalisation in higher education. These programmes have recently been...

‘Challenging’ reflexivity in the transition between practicums: A practical and gamified approach to embed ‘big ideas’ into the teacher education curriculum

Like all teacher educators in England, we are conscious that our practice is increasingly located in turbulent and changing political and managerial landscapes for teacher education (see Murtagh &...

The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the academic, psychological and sociocultural adaptation of international students in the UK

Covid-19, education and educational research

Although there is a well-established literature on the international student experience (Schartner & Young, 2020), we know relatively little about what ‘being an international student’ has...

‘Shut up and leave me alone’: Why schools need to be places of belonging

‘Shut up and leave me alone’ were the only words that 10-year-old refugee ‘Aisha’ could find to say in English after three weeks in her school. She was the outsider who didn’t...

The stuff of play: Taking posthuman and feminist materialist theory out to play in the materiality of the early childhood classroom

As a researcher in early childhood teacher education, you spend inordinate amounts of time reading and attempting to make sense of a variety of theories. Every now and again, however, theory leaps...

Boarding schools: Studying the wellbeing of Australian Indigenous and non-Indigenous boarders and non-boarders

A legacy of British takeover and its ethnocentric dominance is that Aboriginal Australians have suffered generational disadvantages on many indicators of health and wellbeing (Dillon, 2020). A...

Is it still internationalisation? Thoughts on Chinese students pursuing postgraduate degrees in education in the UK

Too many Chinese students studying education? During 2017–18, I completed my Master’s degree in educational studies at the University of Glasgow. Despite having a great time learning about...

Hard questions: Learning to teach controversial issues

Teachers and teacher educators often find it difficult to explore controversial issues in their classrooms, especially in politically fraught times. Controversial issues are defined as open...