Introduction What is an effective school leadership in a system that is predetermined by inequality and structural limitations? Educational reform in Pakistan occurs in a diverse, but ...

This SIG offers a space for researchers, policy makers and practitioners located in a wide variety of settings, to discuss and interact on matters of interest pertinent to creativity in education.

The fact that student teachers commonly perceive educational research and theory to be far removed from practice is well documented in initial teacher education (ITE) research. Teacher ...

Gillian is a teacher educator and teacher education researcher at Liverpool John Moores University, where she is also Deputy Director of the Liverpool Institute for Educational Research ...

What does it mean to ‘understand’? Despite its centrality to most, if not all educational endeavours, what is meant by ‘understanding’ is not clear and is highly contested (Ross, ...

How can we make educational research meaningful for teachers working in busy classrooms? At Nottingham Trent University (NTU), we explored this question through a close-to-practice ...

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Syra Shakir is an Associate Professor in Learning and Teaching and Strategic Lead on Race Equity at Leeds Trinity University. She works on embedding race equity in the curriculum, decolonisation, anti ...

Dr Ian Cushing is Reader in Critical Applied Linguistics at Manchester Metropolitan University. His research focuses on documenting and dismantling linguistic injustice in schools, especially at the ...

Born in Manchester, Kathryn began her work in education as a volunteer teacher in Eritrea, later teaching in inner-city schools, before holding political office as an elected member of the Inner ...

Tony Bush is Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Nottingham and previously held professorial positions at the universities of Leicester, Reading, Lincoln and Warwick. He is ...