What does it mean to ‘understand’? Despite its centrality to most, if not all educational endeavours, what is meant by ‘understanding’ is not clear and is highly contested (Ross, ...
How can we make educational research meaningful for teachers working in busy classrooms? At Nottingham Trent University (NTU), we explored this question through a close-to-practice ...
Across the world, the importance of foreign language learning (FLL) at school tends to be taken for granted. Or at least it is when the language being learned is English, given its vital role ...
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Governing logic In May 2025, the UK government published an immigration white paper, titled Restoring Control Over the Immigration System, which advocated tighter controls on movement ...
All things higher education research, policy, and practice. The transition from elite to mass higher education systems is a significant global development that forms the broader context for ...
The Inclusive Education SIG provides a forum for critical discussion about all aspects of Inclusive education. Our concerns are with the substantive, methodological and ethical aspects of research ...
Decolonial work is often discussed as if it were principally about knowledge: whose histories appear, whose concepts travel, whose methods count. Yet the deeper claim is ethical. It is about ...
Syra Shakir is an Associate Professor in Learning and Teaching and Strategic Lead on Race Equity at Leeds Trinity University. She works on embedding race equity in the curriculum, decolonisation, anti ...
Sarah Stewart is the director of The Open University ITE Partnership PGCE programme in Wales. Sarah has worked in education in both primary and secondary contexts and as a teacher educator. She has a ...
Dr Ian Cushing is Reader in Critical Applied Linguistics at Manchester Metropolitan University. His research focuses on documenting and dismantling linguistic injustice in schools, especially at the ...
Alexandra Brown is a Philosophy, Ethics and Religious Studies secondary school teacher, academic, visiting lecturer, writer and poet whose work focuses on Christian theologies of liberation (namely ...