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Dr Oli Belas is a senior lecturer in the School of Education and English at the University of Bedfordshire. He has teaching and research interests in various areas of English, creative writing, education and philosophy.
The popularity of Adolescence ‘Toxic masculinity’ is a familiar though vague and highly contentious concept. This matters for educators and for education given the ongoing and widely...
Continue reading blog postThe Netflix-produced Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere aims to understand the extreme, misogynist fringes of the manosphere – an umbrella term for online masculinist subcultures – and the...
Continue reading blog postKindly supported by the: The Institute for Research in Education at The University of Bedfordshire and NATE [The National Association for the Teaching of English] This interdisciplinary one-day...
This is not a one-year blip: If we have to have a national assessment system, it shouldn’t be this one Although calls for root-and-branch reform of our national examinations systems aren’t...
Continue reading blog postAesthetic education is usually concerned with the role of arts appreciation in students’ personal development. Its advocates often pitch it in opposition to instrumentalism, but in doing so,...
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