Can children simultaneously be 'novices', in need of direct instruction, and 'scholars'? 🤔

📚 BERJ SPECIAL SECTION: Theorising educational engagement, transitions and outcomes for care-experienced people
British Educational Research Journal Dr Zoe Baker Katie Ellis Dr Neil Harrison

Volume 50, Issue 2
April 2024

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Says it all!

One doctor takes their life every three weeks, Victoria Atkins.

How can you possibly countenance slashing psychological support services for a deeply traumatised post-Covid NHS workforce?

It’s pure vindictiveness.

Making more sense of teacher coaching. Blogpost from ⁦CollectivED⁩ With link to access free guide to teacher coaching. leedsbeckett.ac.uk/blogs/carnegie…

‘the prevailing tenor of political and media debate has been to hector universities: “Behave like a market! No, not like that!” Time & again, governments have been astonished by the unintended – though widely predicted – consequences of their legislation.’ newstatesman.com/comment/2024/0…

And that’s why we’re in the mess we’re in. People with 0 experience of actual teaching QA the resources of highly experienced professionals. For shame.

Yet another person who has heavily involved themselves in education now joining GB News team? Lord Agnew likely to replace Ark's Paul Marshall. Agnew is trustee of National Institute for Teaching and founded/chairs Inspiration Trust. Formerly of EPI too.
desmog.com/2024/04/12/lor…

Rachel Lofthouse Internationalise our reading. Go back to the classic texts on teacher learning eg Joyce and Showers. Step away from Little Englander narratives.

There are so many limiting assumptions about teachers, teaching and teacher learning now accepted as the norm. They underwrite policy and are used as so-called evidence for practice. I wonder how we can elevate our critical thinking in this field?

“We are universities: places of freedom of thought, where diverse views are valued. Yet the DfE is approving what our academic staff can and cannot teach, down to the level of some of the PowerPoint presentations we are using in lectures.” – Jan Rowe
timeshighereducation.com/depth/have-uni…

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Seems like double standards to me.

The government is killing the study of humanities in our universities

thetimes.co.uk/article/cca656…

Apply for photo ID to vote (called a ‘Voter Authority Certificate’). If you work with 18 year olds upwards please share. It’s urgent as the deadline is approaching. The government don’t seem to be actively sharing this. So we need to. gov.uk/apply-for-phot…

📚 Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research, fifth edition (2024)

BERA is delighted to publish this fifth edition which has been revised and updated to enable researchers to conduct their work to the highest ethical standards.

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Thinking about coaching in education? This paper may help. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…. Open access here eprints.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/id/eprint/5306/

The 2024 Small Grants scheme is open for proposals on #Religion #Spirituality & #MoralEducation Grants of £10k or £20k are available for 12 month projects to do new research. Full information here soc-for-ed-studies.org.uk/prizes-grants-… #RSME #charactereducation #ecr #research #edutwitter

‘…coaching (in education) may be a valuable means to deploy the expertise of experienced professionals to support an education system exposed to problems of retention of both teachers and school leaders.’ leedsbeckett.ac.uk/blogs/carnegie…

‘coaching (in education) is suited to helping individuals dealing with authentic challenges, professional interests & dilemmas experienced in complex educational settings, while also acting as a counterweight to some of the consequences of performativity.’ leedsbeckett.ac.uk/blogs/carnegie…