On 18th Sept. 2019 we were invited to introduce our research as part of an event organised by UK Stand Alone, and held at the Scottish Parliament. While the focus of the day was on students’ own experiences of estrangements, as represented

I was interviewed recently by Dr. Philip Tonner, Director of The Hutcheson’s Centre for Research in Glasgow, who very kindly asked me to shared my thoughts about social theory and education research. I found this a rewarding exercise – it allowed me

The Journal of Education Policy this year published a special issue on Testing regimes, accountabilities and education policy, which includes a set of nation-based case studies – including studies on the schooling systems of Australia, Japan, Canada and the USA. In the

As usual I went to the annual Social Policy Association Conference, this time held at the University of Sheffield. I always get a lot out of this conference, one of the reasons being that I can attend sessions on topics such as

Prensky, somewhat incredulous at academia’s critical response to the Digital Native, recently claimed he intended his signature concept to be used only as a metaphor (see this book for details). As I implied in my previous post, it is not an empirically

Joint post by Joan Forbes and Elspeth McCartney This is the first post linked to the event: BERA 2013 Conference: Social Theory and Education SIG papers – the paper is entitled: ‘Professional social capital in schools and children’s services: understanding the distribution