As part of a radical reform of educational and health support for young people (YP) with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities, the Code of Practice (DfE & DH, 2015) now advocates the use of...
In his powerful speech at the Cambridge Primary Review Trust鈥檚 (CPRT) conference in November last year, Robin Alexander suggested, in relation to recent electoral outcomes in the UK and the US,...
Can our values as teachers accommodate the demands of what seems to be a progressively securitised education system? The requirement not to undermine fundamental British values (FBV) was...
I came across this innocuous looking phrase in an interview with the French sociologist of education Bernard Charlot聽on the internet. He was quoting the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan to explain how...
The announcement last month that AQA was to withdraw the final History of Art A level specification brought a critical response in the press and on social media, not simply because it represented...
This article argues for the dismantling of the myth of classlessness in entrepreneurship education. Discourse in favour of more entrepreneurship in education has contributed to a process where a...
In 1999 higher education ministers from 29 European countries signed the Bologna Declaration (currently 49 signatory countries) and committed themselves to the creation of the European Higher...
History teachers, teacher-researchers, government agencies and history education academics in England often report that students are frequently incapable of producing complex, developmental...
I very much welcome the revival of the British Curriculum Forum and was delighted to attend the recent conference 鈥淚nvestigating Knowledge and the Curriculum鈥. My reason for attending is that...
In 2010, my secondary school initiated a Learning to Learn (L2L) curriculum for all students in Year 7. There was a competitive selection process, and I was chosen to be one of a team of 5...
Scotland鈥檚 Curriculum for Excellence treats the subject of history (or People, Past Events and Societies, as it is known) as a 鈥榮ocial subject鈥 alongside geography and modern studies.聽 It...
A recently completed doctoral research study (Dalladay, 2014) has explored the role of music teacher biography in the planning of musical activities in the secondary school classroom and its...