Research

Annual Research Report of the School of Education

The most recent report

Research interests of School of Education staff

Click on the links to be directed to the publications of some staff members:

Cognition:

• Sociocultural and activity theory, learning and cognition;
• Primary schooling, classroom teaching and learning and cognitive development

Curriculum:

• Curriculum studies; sociology of knowledge; education policy
• Curriculum, teachers' work and the sociological study of pedagogy

Education policy:

• Education policy; school organisation and change; ethics and social justice in education

History education:

• Contemporary history (especially the ways in which totalitarian regimes are remembered/narrated in a pedagogical setting) and oral and popular history;
• History teacher education and primary and secondary history teaching

Language education:

• Language and literacy, identity/subjectivity and learning and race, class and gender in schooling;
• Literacy as situated social practice

Mathematics education:

• Second chance maths;
• Complexity science and diversity

Philosophy with children:

• Philosophy with Children, Child and Childhood Studies, Children’s Literature

Science education:

• Scientific literacy, the public understanding of science and the development and training of science teachers

Maths and Science Education Project

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Schools Performing Above Demographic Expectations Project

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