Supporting research in Education Studies
Supporting research in Education Studies
A Guide to the Mental Health of Children and Young People: Q&A for parents, caregivers and teachers by Meinou Simmons (425 pp. pbk.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2023). ISBN 9781911623915 This is not strictly an Education Studies publication. However, the…
The Tyranny of Merit: What’s become of the common good? By Michael J. Sandel 272 pp. (pbk.) London: Allen Lane (2020). ISBN 978-0-241-40760-8 There are books that are comforting in that they confirm your thinking, and there are books that…
For the first post in our blog series, we welcome thoughts and reflections from Stephen Ward, one of our founding members and Journal Reviews Editor. With the COVID-19 crisis and cancellation of the 2020 conference providing a starting point to…
Higher education has not tended to feature strongly in the undergraduate Education Studies curriculum. There has perhaps been an over-emphasis on 3-16 schooling and the learning and development of children and young people. I have always found this strange in…
For the last twenty years educational policy transfer and educational borrowing have been high on the agenda of many countries. Comparative international performance data such as PISA have made the prospect of importing policies and pedagogical methods irresistible to governments…
I grew up on a post-war council estate in Leeds and there was never the remotest prospect of my being sent to a boarding school. But I was always fascinated – a fascination of horror – by life in boarding…