Peter Blatchford
Peter Blatchford is professor in psychology and education at the UCL Institute of Education.
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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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Respecting the role of the physical body in teaching and learning
Covid-19 has shed light on the day-to-day life of teaching and learning. As parents began home-schooling and teachers adapted to innovative ways of connecting with students online, in our...
Continue reading blog postTaking stock of social theory in education research: Hybridity, methodology and critical reflexivity
#BERA_theory Online registration for this event has now closed, please email events@bera.ac.uk to register. In this talk we argue that educational researchers should consider more fully...
Flattening the awarding gap through identity work
The awarding gap is starkest between the likelihood of White (domiciled) students and Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) (domiciled) students being awarded a ‘good’ degree in the United...
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Taking a year out? The ambitious teleology of higher education for cultivating a self-aware society
In the much-quoted Heraclitean aphorism, ‘the road up and down is one and the same’ (see for example Russell, 2004, p. 51), the pre-Socratic philosopher introduces a radical relativism and...
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Empathy and engagement from a distance: Three learning delivery options in an uncharted terrain
My understanding of the uncharted terrain that ensued from January 2020 in China and March 2020 the world over is that human in-person mobility and interaction outside homes has been completely...
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Urgent matters of insight: Upholding gaps in higher education research, teaching and learning for super-complexity
To date, Covid-19 has not only highlighted the interconnectedness of societies and individuals, but also that educational endeavours privileging the cultivation of particular human qualities...
Continue reading blog postEditorial: Teaching and learning in higher education for times of uncertainty
For higher education, Covid-19 has presented a particular challenge: having had to convert our classrooms to online platforms, higher education practitioners have faced the task of teaching and...
Continue reading blog postDigital equity: Learning in lockdown for the autistic student
Many of us in the higher education sector are frantically working to place our modules online. This digital transformation at pace can result in short-term decisions, so it is imperative that at...
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Understanding adult education in community contexts: The case of the homelessness sector
Third sector community organisations are important sites for learning, especially for the most excluded groups in society. However, little attention has been paid to the various factors shaping...
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