In his seminal paper in 1950, ‘Computing Machinery and Intelligence’, Alan Turing raised the question: ‘Can machines think?’. Igniting debates among both philosophers and ...

In August 2023, I became the inaugural recipient of the BERA Equality in Education Award in recognition of my race equity work in education. In this blog post I reflect on how race and racism have ...

We have been discussing the forthcoming 2024 UK general election and how we might enable debate about public education in England. We have found James O’Brien’s arguments ...

Dominic Wyse addressed the long-running issue of whether education is a discipline. I suggest that an essential requirement for a discipline is engagement between those ...

Questions about boys and their constructions of masculinity continue to stimulate interest, debate and controversy in academic circles, the media and society. Although figures like Andrew ...

For many years, school curriculum resources have been designed without explicit reference to research evidence and without extensive trialling in classrooms (Burkhardt & Schoenfeld, 2003; Foster et al ...

Dr Bethany Woollacott is a postdoctoral research associate at the Centre for Early Mathematics Learning in the Department of Mathematics Education at Loughborough University. Bethany’s ...

In her seminal work on the relationship between men and patriarchy, bell hooks famously noted: ‘The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence towards ...

Vienne Lin is a doctoral researcher from the Department of Education at the University of Bath. Her research interests include willingness to communicate, class participation, education policy ...

Making decisions in educational research: Ethics and methodologies ...

Funding schools by formula has been applied across a number of countries for at least the past 50 years. A National Funding Formula (NFF) in England was introduced in 2018 and aims to provide ...

I first engaged with critical posthuman theory in 2015, at Rosi Braidotti’s Posthuman Summer School at the University of Utrecht. At the time, I was working in teacher training, preparing people for ...