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Angela Garden; Graham Downes – Education 3-13, 2024
Forest Schools emerged in the UK in the early 1990s after a group of practitioners developed the Forest School programme following a visit to Denmark. In our recent systematic review of forest school literature in England (Garden and Downes 2021), we proposed that a focus on space in future research to generate new complexities around the broader…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Environmental Education, Educational Environment, Role Theory
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Fiona Maine – Education 3-13, 2024
This article takes stock of the current trends in research, policy and practice regarding the role of language in the dialogic classroom. The article uses the policies of two different educational jurisdictions as counterpoints to highlight the different ways that oral language can be positioned within primary curricula. It reflects on current and…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Trend Analysis, Educational Research, Educational Policy
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Teresa Cremin; Helen Hendry; Lucy Rodriguez-Leon; Samantha Jayne Hulston – Education 3-13, 2024
In contrast to the field's predominant focus on teacher-led talk in reading contexts, this study considers child-led relaxed conversations about texts. It examines what is afforded by the occurrence of such relaxed book talk and how this is enabled with young children in school. Data are drawn from a co-participative study with four teachers in…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Student Centered Curriculum, Informal Education, Foreign Countries
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Knight, Rupert – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2015
Integrating theoretical knowledge within teacher education has often been portrayed as difficult, with previous studies reporting student teachers' ambivalence, or even scepticism, about the value of research findings and theory to classroom practice. Moreover, the nature of teachers' professional knowledge is itself uncertain and highly complex.…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Theory Practice Relationship
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Hanley, Una – British Educational Research Journal, 2007
This article seeks to contrast two constructions of teachers and teaching in England. The first construction is to be found in government documentation, which privileges a technical-rational approach. The second is to be found in film and advertising for the profession, where the teacher is represented as an altruistic and charismatic subject. In…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Teacher Role, Fantasy
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Brain, Kevin; Reid, Ivan; Boyes, Louise Comerford – Educational Studies, 2006
Teachers obviously serve as the medium for causing the result of policy as they carry it into schools and classrooms and deliver it to pupils. They mediate between education policy and practice. Knowledge of the exact nature and effects of this vital role is limited. Drawing on a range of research and evaluation of both national and local policy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Classification, Policy Analysis
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Tiknaz, Yonca; Sutton, Alan – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice, 2006
The article focuses on the planning and implementation of interim assessment tasks in Key Stage 3 Geography. This research identifies three key dimensions which impact on the planning of assessment in the medium and long term. These are: teachers' emerging conceptualization of "formative assessment"; the statutory requirements for…
Descriptors: Geography, National Curriculum, Formative Evaluation, Policy Analysis