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Lessons for adapting home learning from parents with children with special educational needs

Covid-19, education and educational research

‘Doing less, making learning fun and looking after everyone’s wellbeing’

The rise of the flexible and remote teacher: A primary school’s response to the Covid-19 context in London

Covid-19, education and educational research

On Friday 29 May 2020, ITV ran a story on the London regional news about a primary school whose pupils were reported to be ‘traveling the world’ through the adoption of video conferencing (VC)...

Curriculum reform and inequality: The challenges facing Wales

Wales is in the process of undertaking a major overhaul of its national curriculum. Until recently, the curriculum largely resembled that put in place by the 1988 Education Reform Act. The new...

Warren Kidd

Senior Lecturer

Dr Warren Kidd is Director of Education and Experience at the University of East London, England, and Honorary Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Patras, Greece. An experienced author,...

Hatice Yildirim

Hatice Yildirim taught as a teacher of the deaf/hard-of-hearing in educational settings in Turkey for six years. She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Exeter, exploring the coping...

Anna Mountford-Zimdars

Anna Mountford-Zimdars is a professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Exeter and a principal fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She is the founding and academic...

The 10 books that made me a sociologist of education

Over a period of 45 years working in higher education I have accumulated a lot of books. I am now sorting through that accumulation and trying to decide which I will keep and which I will pass on...

Sally Power

Sally Power is a professor in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, and director of WISERD (Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data). She undertakes research on...

Chris Taylor

Chris Taylor is a professor of social sciences at Cardiff University and the academic director for the Cardiff University Social Science Research Park. Chris has undertaken a wide range of...

Nigel Newton

Dr Nigel Newton works in the Cardiff School of Education and Social Policy at Cardiff Metropolitan University. His research interests include educational transitions, curriculum studies and school...

Re‐educating the nation? The development of a new curriculum for Wales

This series of blogs summarises new research featured in a special issue of the Curriculum Journal  (published simultaneously in English and Welsh), which explores the many issues that arise...

Stephen J Ball

Professor Stephen J Ball is emeritus professor of sociology of education at the UCL Institute of Education. His main areas of interest are in education policy analysis and social theory: –...