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Typing aloud

In common with most teacher educators, I am a big fan of classroom talk. I continually stress to my English subject trainee teachers the huge value of the spoken word and invite them to be...

Elizabeth Killen

Liz joins the Risk Assessment & Audit Committee with a background in policy, industry, and academia. Currently, she is a PhD Candidate at the University of Cambridge, focussing on modelling the...

Carmel Roofe

Senior Lecturer in Curriculum and Instruction

Dr. Carmel Roofe is a Senior Lecturer in Curriculum and Instruction in the School of Education, at The University of the West Indies, Mona where she is the programme co-ordinator for masters and...

Joanna Haynes

Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Education Studies

Joanna Haynes is associate professor at Plymouth University Institute of Education, England. Her research interests are in community and democratic education, philosophy of childhood and...

Activism, autonomy and identities: Stories from early childhood educators

In pre-Covid England, early childhood education and care (ECEC) was already in a state of uncertainty. A maelstrom of structural conditions and an onslaught of initiatives had manifested as...

Todd Lubart

Todd Lubart is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Paris Descartes, France. His research focuses on creativity, with emphases on individual differences, measures of creative potential,...

James C. Kaufman

James C. Kaufman is a Professor of Educational Psychology at the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut. The author/editor of 45+ books and several hundred papers, he is the...

Clare Lawrence

Clare Lawrence is the English subject lead on the secondary PGCE course at Bishop Grosseteste University (BGU). She is a graduate of York, Oxford, Northumbria, Birmingham and Sheffield Hallam...

Birth to three matters for schools: Attachment theory and readiness to learn

The role of attachment theory in education has frequently been questioned, as typified in the recent Twitter exchange on ‘edutwitter’ below. Figure 1: Anonymised screenshot of a tweet and...

Nathan Archer

Director of the International Montessori Institute

Dr. Nathan Archer is Director of the International Montessori Institute at Leeds Beckett University. He has a professional background as a Montessori Primary teacher and has worked in early...

Carol Wild

MA Programme Lead

Carol has worked across all phases of education as an artist, teacher, mentor, and researcher. She has led postgraduate programmes in education for many years, designing creative CPD for busy...

Predicted grades and prejudice

Across England, most secondary-level students will be receiving predicted grades at the end of this year. These grades may determine their entry into further education or a particular workforce....