Teaching Maths for Social Justice
Teaching mathematics is a social justice issue. Despite numerous calls from the mathematics education community, the curriculum in England remains stubbornly resistant to change. Too many...
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Positive Behavioural Supports – a critical analysis
In the US we have a systematic and prescriptive practice to deal with children manifesting chronic behavioural issues in the classroom. The method is called Positive Behavioral Supports (PBS). PBS...
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Why the Neuro label and what does it mean when applied to Education?
Think of a disciplinary area, give it the label Neuro, activate a Google search and you are bound to come up with a huge number of hits. Education is no exemption and the scope of application is...
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Education and social mobility
Over the past two decades the UK state education system has faced increasing pressure to raise academic standards and improve outcomes for all young people, regardless of their social background...
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Assessment in Schools: What is to be done?
I have been busier than I expected in the time since I stepped down from being BERA’s President and Vice President. Like a number of other BERA colleagues I have responded to invitations to talk...
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Meeting the Challenge of School Improvement for ‘Coastal Academies’ in England
I have spent the majority of the last 25 years as an educationalist living and working in coastal regions. I have come to recognise and understanding the difference that this locality makes to the...
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Should we be afraid of profit in education?
Both the New Labour and coalition governments have contributed to a legal and administrative infrastructure which enables profit making
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