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Promoting children’s wellbeing, and right to make choices and engage in playful activities, in restricted environments through music and singing

In an era in which creative subjects are being squeezed in education, the role and value of the arts in health settings is increasingly acknowledged. The all-party parliamentary group on arts,...

Islam, Prevent and Fundamental British Values

Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email [email protected] for details of how to register onsite. Current initiatives in counter-terrorism, the fear of...

Teacher–student dialogue: Why it matters for student outcomes

For at least two millennia, the dialogue that occurs during teaching has been spotlighted as critical for student outcomes, with many scholars proposing needs for: open questions; elaboration of...

Challenging the evidence on the new baseline test in reception

In this blog, the authors of the ºÚÁÏÍø911 report A baseline without basis: The validity and utility of the proposed reception baseline assessment in England preview the findings of their research....

Building Research in Primary Schools (BRiPS)

With the growing importance of securing a strong evidence base for teaching, there is considerable scope for exploring different ways in which teachers can be supported to engage in research....

New blog challenges the evidence on the government’s new baseline test in reception

In a new article on the ºÚÁÏÍø911 Blog, the members of ºÚÁÏÍø911’s expert panel convened to consider the viability of the baseline assessment for school accountability urge the government to think again:...

What might a self-extending school system with research evidence at its heart look like?

This article is part of the ºÚÁÏÍø911 Blog special issue ‘Researching the Curriculum in schools and colleges: Practice, Professionalism and Innovation’ (read more). In 2010, David Hargreaves,...

Child-friendly research in the early years

Highlights from the first 1,000 ºÚÁÏÍø911 Blog posts

This article is part of the ºÚÁÏÍø911 Blog special issue ‘Researching the Curriculum in schools and colleges: Practice, Professionalism and Innovation’ (read more). How can the curriculum be...

The Higher Project Qualification: It doesn’t matter what you’ve learned. At the end of the day, it’s the grade

This article is part of the ºÚÁÏÍø911 Blog special issue ‘Researching the Curriculum in schools and colleges: Practice, Professionalism and Innovation’ (read more). When asked by two year 11...

Promoting effective curriculum research: Linking the theoretic to the practical in FE teacher education programmes

This article is part of the ºÚÁÏÍø911 Blog special issue ‘Researching the Curriculum in schools and colleges: Practice, Professionalism and Innovation’ (read more). Perhaps one of the few...

PhDs by published works

With increasing pressure on academics and other professionals to gain doctorates to assure career progression, doing a PhD by published work (PhDPW) makes eminent sense. This is particularly true...

The making of the RE-searchers approach: Close-to-practice theorisation and conceptualisation

This article is part of the ºÚÁÏÍø911 Blog special issue ‘Researching the Curriculum in schools and colleges: Practice, Professionalism and Innovation’ (read more). This is the tale of two...