Nationalism in History Education
Nationalist far-right parties have recently gained popularity in Europe and the United States. The current rise of xenophobic populism is connected to a broader backlash against changing...
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鈥楤eyond the Plateau鈥: Right Problem, Odd Solution
鈥楤eyond the Plateau鈥: The Case for an Institute of Advanced Teaching, published by the IPPR last week, identifies probably the key school-level challenge in improving educational outcomes and...
Continue reading blog postAspiring leaders understanding their 鈥榮elves鈥 and/in social contexts
This blog post follows up my initial thoughts concerning opportunities for change in August 2015 (/blog/an-opportunity-for-change). At that time, the opportunities in...
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Reclaiming communities after the Brexit vote
In the aftermath of the Brexit vote, the divide between the south and the north, the disarray in government, and the uncertainty of what will happen in the future need to be considered from a...
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Emerging methodologies welcome here? Not according to twitter
I remember with crystal clarity the moment my research mentor Dr Elaine Hall uttered the words that have come to change my life. We were stood in the corridor outside our offices - where all the...
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Welcome Justine Greening – please take care with English education!
So farewell, Nicky Morgan and Michael Gove. Welcome Justine Greening, our third Conservative English Secretary of State for Education since 2010. This is beginning to look a bit like the musical...
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Wales and the politics of education
On the 5th May 2016, the people of Wales went to the polls to elect members of the National Assembly 鈥 to which all matters of education policy in the country are devolved. The outcome of the...
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Unauthorised Absences
If there鈥檚 one issue on which Mumsnet users all tend to agree, it鈥檚 the importance of education. Not all of them would necessarily say that 鈥榚ducation鈥 and 鈥榮chooling鈥 are exactly the...
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Localism in Education: A Reflection on the EU Referendum
In the aftermath of the EU referendum the BBC has published two graphs revealing the English regions where votes were highest for the leave and remain camps. The region topping the leave vote was...
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