There is an impending crisis in the numbers of teachers in schools. This is message that I have heard time and again at the various conferences I have attended in recent weeks looking at the...
I’m both laughing and crying. We do a lot of that in education, don’t we? Someone at work who works closely with teachers just told me that teachers in English schools, if asked about a test...
Over the last 12 months I have been lucky enough to have the opportunity to read, reflect and write about evidence-based practice and education. The more and more I have read about the...
The issue of effectively engaging linguistically and culturally diverse students is one that preoccupies teachers and researchers alike, resonating across rural, suburban, urban, mainstream and...
In the last two decades there has been an attention on literacy, principally among countries participating in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) (Grek, 2010;...
The ‘tragedy of the commons’ is a well-known tenet of public, and especially environmental policy. The ‘commons’ refers to a resource shared by many individuals who can use a portion of it...
Like many lecturers in higher education I weary of the techno-managed, audited and performance-reviewed life we lead. I can’t believe in it and it all seems so poor and, contrary to the...
Should we 'teach' interdisciplinarity at school? This blog post suggests that we should. If you think of real world problems in engineering, health, politics and so on, these require...
Recently critiques of Academisation have focused on themes broadly relating to educational marketisation, (quasi)-privatisation, financialisation and corporatization. To understand these processes...
My PhD dissertation seeks to examine the extent and the means by which the mainland government has been endeavouring to (re)construct a Hong Kong identity with a sustained emphasis on...
Building on last year’s BERA paper, this year, we are sharing the key findings from the completed EMT project. With more to be found in the paper and the presentation, here we highlight a small...
There was recently a DfE call for evidence on Teacher Development to inform a national standard. I am interested because I have pioneered UK Lesson Study - which I view as a powerful form of...