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Playing with Playmobil: Supporting undergraduate conceptual understanding in environmental and sustainability education

Playful approaches to learning are well established when teaching children, especially those in early childhood. But there is mounting research evidence about the value of playful learning in...

The role of language models in student learning and assessment

Artificial Intelligence in educational research and practice

Language models, such as ChatGPT, Google Bard, claude.ai and pi.ai, are artificial intelligence-powered chatbots that generate intelligent-sounding text when responding to user prompts. Students...

Effective reading instruction for students with specific learning difficulties

When it comes to teaching reading to students with specific learning difficulties (SpLD), one size does not fit all. Students with SpLD face a unique set of challenges that can make learning to...

Teaching Peru’s recent history of conflict in secondary schools: Exploring perspectives ‘at the margins’ and ‘from below’

For two decades between 1980 and 2000, Peru experienced a significant internal conflict, primarily involving the government and the ‘Shining Path’ terrorist group. This tragic period resulted...

Linguistic injustice in secondary school classrooms: The case of Tanzania

In Global South countries, the issue of students’ freedoms to learn in a language they know well has been a subject of discussion for many decades. In Tanzania, there is an ongoing debate...

Newly arrived refugee pupils: Educators’ knowledge, attitudes and practices

According to UNHCR refugee statistics, in mid-2023 the number of forcibly displaced people worldwide topped 110 million for the first time in recorded history. Children who are refugees or asylum...

Curriculum work and hermeneutics: A new paradigm for contemporary education?

Teachers’ curriculum work can be a controversial topic (see for example Priestley, 2011). It is a high-level concern for politicians, public commentators, parents and professional groups, and...

Practical ways to assess teachers’ impact on student learning

There is a long-standing tradition of using classroom observations in the assessment and development of teaching in education systems across the world (O’Leary 2020). This is because...

Guest editing opportunity for Research Intelligence, issue 160

Education and democracy

How we teach our teachers: The plight of initial teacher education in England and its global impact

‘Teaching is not a lost art but the regard for it is a lost tradition.’ (Barzun, 1954, p. 12)  As it was then for Jacques Barzun, so it is now for the state of teaching in England. How we...

Teacher agency: The missing data

There is a growing body of literature that reconceptualises teacher agency through an ecological lens, encapsulating the temporal, contextual and relational dimensions of agency (see for example...

Spring 2024

Research Intelligence issue 158: Unheard voices: Language education outside the mainstream