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2026 ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Educational Research Book of the Year

Closes 22 Jul 2026

This award celebrates the publication of educational research and is awarded to a scholarly book on education deemed to be high quality, engaging and innovative.

Knowledge is never neutral: Hegelian reflections on contemporary education

A stalemate is how we understand knowledge Education faces a philosophical stalemate. On one side is an ‘objective obsession’ with standardised metrics. For example, English education polices...

Right, what are we doing to help the children?

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Teaching empathy, upholding empire? A decolonial perspective

In recent years, educational initiatives promoting empathy as a pathway to understanding and global citizenship have surged (see for example The British Academy; Cumbria Community Foundation;...

AI and education for Right Action: Exploring directions through possibilitarianism

Artificial Intelligence in educational research and practice

In this blog post, we think about how artificial intelligence (AI) might open space(s) for Right Action by expanding individualistic human discernment, and by moving towards collective/communal...

SIG Meet & Discuss: Philosophy of Education

The Philosophy of Education SIG represents those engaged in research and teaching in theoretical and empirical philosophy of education and those seeking to further their understanding of the...

The ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Blog: Highlights of 2025

ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Blog end of year highlights

Snow-dusted salutations and tinsel-tinged tidings to all our readers, authors, curators and guest editors around the globe. In this, the ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Blog’s tenth anniversary year, I look back over the...

Opening the black box of evidence, urgently

10 years of the ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Blog

The idea that education should be or become an evidence-based profession has been around for several decades and is still gaining in popularity in many countries around the world. The idea of...

‘Countering the post-truth turn’: A Spinozist educational approach

The 2024 UK election saw the reemergence of Nigel Farage as leader of Reform UK, the political successor to the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) and the Brexit Party. Reform UK’s...

ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ celebrates 10 years of the ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Blog

2025 marks 10 years of the ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Blog, and we’re so proud of all that it has accomplished! Thank you to all those who have contributed to the Blog, whether as authors, editors, or readers. The...

10 years of the ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Blog

This blog series celebrates one decade of the ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Blog, as an important and growing space to explore current and varied issues and questions of concern to the education community. To mark this...

At the intersection of philosophy and poetic inquiry

The relationship between poetry and philosophy is ineluctable (unavoidable and inescapable) and widely understood. Although in this blog post we won’t go as far as to claim, like Coleridge, that...