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Lead, learn and decide: How do Indigenous leaders practise metacognition in decision-making?

The Minangkabau community in West Sumatra, Indonesia, is one of the world’s largest matrilineal Indigenous societies. Governance is organised through a collaborative leadership structure in...

Why religious freedom doesn’t entitle private faith schools to state support

On 13 June 2025, the High Court dismissed a legal challenge to the UK government’s decision to apply Value Added Tax (VAT) to private school fees. On 27 February 2026, the Court of Appeal upheld...

Ethical Dilemmas in Educational Research: Publication and dissemination practices 

How do researchers make ethical decisions about sharing their work, and who gets to access the knowledge they produce? In this episode, we explore alternative approaches to publication and...

2026 ºÚÁÏÍø911 Educational Research Book of the Year

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.

Right, what are we doing to help the children?

ºÚÁÏÍø911 Blog post #2,000

Reforming religious education in Northern Ireland: Moving beyond epistemic injustice

Questions of what constitutes ‘important’ knowledge, whose epistemologies we value, and how we manage competing knowledge claims are central to the design of curricula in plural democracies....

Freedom of religion and belief in education in the Supreme Court

After nearly a century, children’s and parents’ freedom of belief in education finally came before the highest UK court in a significant case about religious education (RE) in Northern Ireland...

Sustainability in post-primary schooling in Northern Ireland: How the future schools toolkit supports change

Northern Ireland is a post-conflict society, yet it remains deeply divided. The school system is a complex network with sensitive and contested policy issues, and up to 94 per cent of pupils...

Beyond religion: Reclaiming spiritual development for curriculum reform

The proposed changes to the national curriculum in England are moving towards skills-based learning, broader subject inclusion, and an education that prepares pupils for digital and media...

The ºÚÁÏÍø911 Blog: Highlights of 2025

ºÚÁÏÍø911 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 ºÚÁÏÍø911 Blog’s tenth anniversary year, I look back over the...

Editorial: Seeking a new paradigm for antiracist multicultural education

English society and its education system have been through several phases of multicultural education – beginning with the colourblind, then through multicultural and antiracist phases, and then...

Seeking a new paradigm for antiracist multicultural education

English society and its education system have been through several phases of multicultural education. The current context for race, racism and hope education was discussed by Vini Lander in her...