Against empiricism
As educational researchers, our work is framed and therefore requires us to operate with and through a general theory of objects and object-relations. This enframing comprises a semantic...
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Social justice through non-violence: Not purely an intellectual endeavour
The issue of ‘violence-based inequality’ is a philosophical one that translates into more practical issues. In using this term, I borrow from Judith Butler’s The Force of Non-Violence (2020)...
Continue reading blog postThe Chinese language classroom as a pedagogic emancipatory space: Cultural capital in multilingual Australia
Languages education plays a central role in constructing hegemony and boundaries, while also being commodified as a technical skill with symbolic added value in the globalised new economy (Heller...
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‘We are the most researched people in the world’: Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith speaks at Cambridge on the project of decolonising education
On Thursday 3 June, Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith addressed the University of Cambridge’s annual conference at the Faculty of Education. Smith is ending her time as professor of education and...
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Connecting to the land and nature
KO AHAU TE AWA KO TE AWA KO AHAU I AM THE RIVER, AND THE RIVER IS ME Pleasurable experiences in nature can lead to the development of a positive attitude and active engagement with the natural...
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Researching in Covid-era schools
Paul Willis, in Learning to Labour (Willis, 1977), joins his teenage research subjects in their extracurricular trips to the pub, in the name of holistic ethnography. I used to use this anecdote...
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Teacher micropopulism on social media
When you invest years in thinking about what populism is and how it manifests on social media, it is easy to forget that, for many, ‘populism’ is seen as a negative term, and that individuals...
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The problems with resilience thinking
The Covid-19 pandemic has given new currency to the idea of resilience, in terms of adapting to and recovering from adversity. However, in recent years the discourse of resilience has become...
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Social haunting in former mining communities: A young person’s perspective
The north-east of England is one of the toughest places in the country for young people to gain employment (Carter, 2012). Young people from the region are more likely to drop out of education at...
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Academic identity of early career social scientists in China: A focused ethnographic approach
I really enjoyed participating in the BERA Early Career Researcher (ECR) Network’s symposium series, which is a great platform for practitioners and researchers to get together and talk about...
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A (very) inconvenient truth?
At the beginning of January the prime minister claimed that reopening schools was safe and that the benefits of children being in school were ‘huge’ (BBC News, 2021). While educational...
Continue reading blog postThe £350 billion home-schooling question
Education research hit the headlines recently. The BBC reported research claiming that time spent out of school due to coronavirus could cost each child £40,000 in lifetime earnings. By the time...
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