Ben Knight
Dr Ben Knight is a senior lecturer in Education and former teacher and school leader. He lectures on Initial Teacher Education (ITE) postgraduate programmes, master’s and doctoral programmes at...
Showing results 2041–2052 of 7381
Dr Ben Knight is a senior lecturer in Education and former teacher and school leader. He lectures on Initial Teacher Education (ITE) postgraduate programmes, master’s and doctoral programmes at...
Dr Jan Hetherington works at University of Derby as a Senior Lecture with in the IoE. Her research interests are in democracy, knowledge production and policy. Jan works from a socially critical...
David taught and led religious education in schools for ten years before moving into higher education. He has taught across a range of programmes in initial teacher education and education...
There are many shared themes and ideas across the fields of arts-based and inclusive research: the arts have the capacity to connect different communities, provide a means of expression, and...
The Covid-19 outbreak has made a serious impact on many vulnerable populations and revealed social justice issues (Lowell et al., 2022; Meda & Chitiyo, 2022). Embodying diversity and inclusivity...
Continue reading blog postYoung children relish the opportunity to explore new spaces, especially when unusual and unexpected. A growing body of literature about the value of museums and art to the youngest members of the...
Continue reading blog postBERA launched the Education: The State of the Discipline initiative in 2019 to offer a comprehensive account of the state of education as an academic discipline, as a field of practice, and as a...
There are many shared themes and ideas across the fields of arts-based and inclusive research: the arts have the capacity to connect different communities, provide a means of expression, and...
Continue reading blog postIn this blog post we share learning from research into a collaborative community-based project led by Prism Arts, a charity with the vision of ‘Art without Barriers’. Their mission is to...
Continue reading blog postIn 1976 Stevie Wonder sang ‘Music is a world within itself with a language we all understand’. Is this not true? And if so, why is there a widening disconnect between this view and how the...
Continue reading blog postResearch shows that the arts can be highly productive and positive for young people. However, our research suggests that the inclusive potential of the arts can be undermined (Howard, 2022). We...
Continue reading blog postThe context: Understanding inclusivity in Hong Kong In Hong Kong, inclusivity is not just a policy, but a way of delivering special education that embraces individual differences and celebrates...
Continue reading blog post