Learning loss or learning disruption?
Alarm has been expressed about the likely impact of Covid-19 on children’s academic achievement with terms such as ‘closing the gap’, ‘learning loss’ and ‘catch up’ permeating...
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Winter 2020/2021
Digital technology in education Keeping pace with innovation Research Intelligence issue 145 Just as practitioners are struggling to keep up with the onslaught of new technologies entering the...
Who is Australian? Textbooks continue to exclude Black, Indigenous and people of colour from Australianness
Both the explicit and implicit messages that schoolchildren receive from their textbooks matter. My research focuses on race and national belonging and how these have changed from the 1950s to the...
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National curriculum policy in Norway and Brazil
In an article recently published in the Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education, we compared how national curriculum policy, in Norway and Brazil, adopted the global logic of...
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Rethinking class size: The complex story of impact on teaching and learning
The enduring argument over class size is one of the most contested in education. The argument is between many teachers and practitioners who feel that class size makes a big difference to teaching...
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Entanglements of writing and matter: Towards less human-centred practices
Over the last decade, the humanities and social sciences have become increasingly interested in the nonhuman (animals, plants, non-living objects) as having agentic and performative capacities. By...
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Curriculum integration can support the development of powerful knowledge in education
On 20th March 2015, an article published by the Independent (Garner, 2015) claimed that Finnish schools had scrapped school subjects and replaced them with topics. Ever since then Finland has been...
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Reflections on building rapport with university students in an online context
As with other educators, the rapid shift to online delivery during lockdown has led to self-reflection on my teaching skills, how they transfer online, and my ability to use online tools...
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Uncharted terrain: Teaching and learning in higher education for times of uncertainty
This collection of blogs, guest-edited by Gabriella Buttarazzi, explores how we can adopt responsive and creative approaches to teaching, learning and research in higher education during times of...
Making the case for integrating sustainable development in the university language classroom
Many teachers and researchers reading this may be asking themselves: what is sustainable development (SD) and why should I care about it? Here I offer insights on the following three areas: what...
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Flipping the course curriculum: Digital engagement for active learning
Digital engagement has steadily become an important part of an educator’s pedagogic repertoire since universities started offering courses online in the early 2000s. In light of the Covid-19...
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Values first, goals second
I have a certain disquiet about the way we in higher education so often relate success and failure to the attainment or otherwise of goals. This focus on goals is present at all levels of...
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