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Should England have an aims-based curriculum?

Aims-based school curricula This blog post is about an aims-based curriculum and its place in the English school system. It may seem odd to talk about ‘an aims-based curriculum’. Few human...

What is ‘alternative’ about alternative provision in England and Wales?

Artwork created by Young People in alternative provision ‘I’m a genius, who’s taking a photo?’ (Kinsella et al., 2019) ‘We do stupida stuff here’ (Johnston, 2020) These aren’t...

So what? What next? Reflections on education from across the four nations and beyond

10 years of the ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Blog

As two of the editors of the ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Blog, we have curated this series of 10 posts to celebrate one decade of the ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Blog. As we mark this milestone, we recognise the importance of spaces such as...

Climate justice and curriculum justice: Young people’s accounts of schools’ uneven responses to their climate justice activism

While many agree that education is essential to prepare societies to address the climate crisis, there are widely differing opportunities for justice-driven climate change education (see Trott et...

Rebuilt … Reimagined … Renewed … Can Design and Technology be saved before it needs resuscitation?

Design and Technology (D&T) is one of those subjects that everyone has heard of but few people know anything about. As a D&T graduate, secondary teacher and primary coordinator, I see a subject in...

Why teaching peace isn’t enough: Rethinking the role of education in postconflict recovery

10 years of the ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Blog

In postconflict societies, education is often seen as a cornerstone of peacebuilding. Governments, international agencies and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) embrace its potential to foster...

Guest editing opportunity for Research Intelligence, issue 167

This opportunity is now closed. ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ’s ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Committee is seeking an individual or team (of up to three people) to guest edit issue 167 of Research Intelligence on the theme of...

Structured freedom: Supporting children’s agency in primary education

In a recent article published in the British Educational Research Journal, I explore how children’s agency operates within England’s primary education system, and propose the concept of...

Reimagining the curriculum: A call for decolonial and values-driven education

Curriculum is often seen as a fixed ‘course of study’ – a neutral list of topics to be taught and assessed. Yet, it is anything but neutral (Apple, 2004). Pinar (2019) argues that curriculum...

Why shouldn’t I Google it? A case for the use of enhanced internet tools within the primary classroom

It has become second nature: when a question arises, the first thing we do is reach for our phones and access one of the plethora of internet platforms, where we may reliably assume that we will...

Beyond the checklist: Building a primary curriculum that sparks joy and includes every child

With the UK Labour government commissioning Professor Becky Francis to review England’s national curriculum, we have an opportunity to reconsider not just what children should learn but how. As...

Teaching to transform the curriculum (T2TC)

Professional learning for teacher educators: ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Small Grants Fund research reports

Building frameworks for racial literacy