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There are at least two compelling reasons why educational researchers should be centrally involved in challenging racism. First, as a University and College Union (UCU) survey[i] of 鈥榖lack鈥...
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Late last year Newman University where I work as an Education Studies lecturer flew me to Copenhagen to attend the Copenhagen Documentary Festival (CPHDOX), a major film festival. Now, that's not...
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The practice of 鈥榙ifferentiation鈥 in a whole-class setting is an established concept and regarded as being an essential feature of effective pedagogy. As Kerry (2002, p.82) points...
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GCSE results published by the Department for Education (DfE) show enormous variations between the performance of English secondary schools. If we are serious about school improvement then it is...
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There is something both alluring and disquieting about theories which can be summed up as a catchy combination of letters and numbers. They create a hook, something which we can engage with, may...
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Labelling and notions of fixed ability are prevalent in our education system. Students are divided into groups according to their prior attainment and 鈥榓ppropriate鈥 work is provided as a...
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Is it possible to think about education as adventure? This is a question I raised in a recent article I wrote for the Journal of Education Administration and History (Tamboukou 2016). The idea...
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Recently research sponsored by the Independent Schools Council (ISC) was released that 鈥渁ttending an Independent school in England is associated with the equivalent of two additional years of...
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In a recently published article[i] in the Journal of Education Policy (JEP), I traced how governors with 鈥榮kills鈥 are increasingly privileged over representative governors. I wrote about the...
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