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Nathan Archer – Policy Futures in Education, 2024
The early childhood workforce in England has experienced periods of policy attention and more recently policy neglect. During the past two decades (2000--2022) the extent of interest in workforce policy has fluctuated with episodes of investment followed by phases of disinvestment. Throughout this period, early childhood educators have been…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Administrative Policy
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Jacob Matthews; Kristine Black-Hawkins; Arina Basu; Andreea-Ioana Necula; Jonny Downs; Tamsin Ford; Jennifer Saxton; The HOPE Study – British Educational Research Journal, 2024
In England the 2014 Children and Families Act introduced wide ranging changes to the assessment of and provision for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). Guidance underpinning implementation was then published in the Code of Practice. Our study focuses on a key component of that legislation, known as…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Guidelines, Special Education, Foreign Countries
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Smalley, Paul – Journal of Religious Education, 2022
This paper is a critical analysis of the use of metaphors in English Religious Education (RE). It is grounded in the educational theory of Anna Sfard (a professor of Mathematics) who has written about learning metaphors, before considering some of the metaphoric language used in English education generally and RE specifically. It will examine…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Figurative Language, Guides, Guidelines
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Bo Kelestyn; Jess Humphreys – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2025
Institutional approaches to co-creation are shifting away from directive methods to more active and participatory design approaches. New tools for problem solving such as design thinking are becoming increasingly popular in universities. Leveraged incorrectly, they often risk excluding parts of the community. Effective implementation requires more…
Descriptors: Design, Thinking Skills, Guidelines, College Faculty
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Toby Greany; Tom Cowhitt; Andy Noyes; Cath Gripton; Georgina Hudson – Journal of Educational Change, 2025
This article sets out an original conceptual framework for place-based professional learning by teachers and schools in decentralised education systems. High quality Continuing Professional Development and Learning by teachers is associated with improvements in children's outcomes. Most research in this area focuses on evaluating formal…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Educational Quality, Administrative Organization, Outcomes of Education
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Mary Bottomley; Jodie Bradley; Lisa Clark; Bryan Collis; Bojana Daw Srdanovic; Victoria Farnsworth; Annie Ferguson; Dan Goodley; Andrew Fox; Nikita K. Hayden; Charlotte Lawthom; Rebecca Lawthom; Claudia Magwood; Robert McLean; Ian Middleton; Alison Owen; Matty Prothero; Simon Rice; Simon Richards; Katherine Runswick-Cole; Kelly Scargill; Rohit Shankar; Toni Ann Wood – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2024
Background: We are a research team of clinical, academic and advocacy-based researchers with and without learning disabilities, working on the "Humanising Healthcare" (for people with learning disabilities) project. The project is dedicated to finding and sharing healthcare practices that enhance the lives of people with learning…
Descriptors: Ethics, Learning Disabilities, Guidelines, Researchers
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Plater, Mark – Journal of Religious Education, 2023
The 2018 Religious Education Council of England and Wales' review of Religious Education proposes that the subject should be reframed as Religion & Worldviews. Although follow-up studies have explored this idea in some depth, comparatively little thought has been given to the exploration of "personal" worldviews. This paper explores…
Descriptors: Religious Education, World Views, Educational Change, Religious Factors
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Birkenshaw, Claire; Temple Clothier, Anne-Louise – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2023
The recent inclusion of "cultural capital" into the English Ofsted Education Inspection Framework (2019) caused a ripple of discontent within some educational circles, with some suggesting it is indicative of 'white, middle-class paternalism'. Here, we consider the political rise of Bourdieu's concept of 'cultural capital' within the…
Descriptors: Cultural Capital, LGBTQ People, Teaching Methods, Political Influences
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Torevell, David; McHugh, Maria – International Journal of Christianity & Education, 2022
This article delineates the foundational theological principles upon which a Catholic Higher Education chaplaincy devoted to the spiritual development of staff and students might rest. We claim that this is a key dimension of chaplaincy work. In a (post)modern culture where staff and students exhibit a range of beliefs or none, we offer a broad…
Descriptors: Catholics, Religious Colleges, Higher Education, Clergy
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Giulia Carriero – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2024
The proportion of pupils with English as an additional language (EAL) has steadily risen in recent years in England, reaching just under one in five of all pupils aged 5-16 in 2021, with a total of over 365 languages spoken between them. Despite educational psychologists' (EPs) practice being concerned with reduction of barriers that prevent…
Descriptors: Delphi Technique, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Educational Psychology
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Thomas, Kristin L.; Kerstetter, Deborah L. – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2020
Few have examined how students perceive or make sense of their formal educational travel experiences, resulting in a dearth of knowledge about perceived educational value of experiences. To rectify this situation, this study addressed how students make meaning during their education abroad (EA) experience. Employing a constructivist grounded…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Academic Advising, Study Abroad, Educational Experience
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El Masri, Yasmine H.; Erduran, Sibel; Ioannidou, Olga – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2023
Background: The paper discusses how the design of summative assessments of practical science can be enhanced through the use of robust theoretical models that capture the diversity of scientific methods. The developments in assessment policy in England and the role of practical science in teaching and learning of science are reviewed. Purpose: The…
Descriptors: Science Tests, Test Construction, Summative Evaluation, Test Items
Universities UK, 2021
This guidance has been developed following a roundtable bringing together the sector with key agencies, drawing on behavioural research, effective practice and lessons learned from the past year. As students and university staff return to campus for in-person teaching and wider activities, it is important for universities to continue encouraging…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Health Behavior, Disease Control
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Jerome, Lee; Starkey, Hugh – Education 3-13, 2022
This article considers children's agency within the framework of children's rights education. It starts by considering the ways in which agency is conceptualised within the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the implications for education. The main part of the article offers 10 propositions that offer teachers a variety of tools…
Descriptors: Childrens Rights, Child Development, Personal Autonomy, Guidelines
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Piantanida, Cecilia – Research-publishing.net, 2020
This paper explores how a transnational approach to university language classes may help develop students' intercultural competence. Researchers have shown that the integration of literature in the language class has the potential to raise intercultural competence (Deardorff, 2006), especially when migrant and travel literatures are used (Matos,…
Descriptors: Italian, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Rating Scales
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