2022-11-08 Digital technology has yet to redefine music education but there is growing awareness that it could. Jennie Francis who leads the Secondary PGCE Music course at the Cambridge and James Tuck - a musician educator and Cambridge graduate - explain how music technology could make the subject more exciting and accessible than ever before.Read the full story. |
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2022-11-04 Could a Latin American-style community takeover inspire new solutions in Britain’s least equal city? A group of Cambridge students are organising a Latin American-inspired ‘community takeover’ of part of their university to explore how the approach might help to address inequalities within the city.Read the full story. |
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2022-11-04 The government’s £320 million drive to help primary schools promote children’s physical health is in danger of failing because most of the teacher development it funds is ineffective new research on similar initiatives suggests.Read the full story. |
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2022-10-25 Leading and learning are often mentioned in the same breath – but when we talk about ‘leadership’ in education what (and who) do we mean? In January the University of Cambridge will be running a course for current professionals on ‘Leadership for Learning with Dialogue’. Drawing on decades of international research on the subject its aim is to equip teachers and other practitioners with a working knowledge of what it means to ‘lead’ for learning – and how this can enable meaningful and positive changes in schools universities and beyond.Read the full story |
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2022-10-14 The outcomes of a pan-European project which trialled the hands-on learning approach known as ‘Tinkering’ show that it could be used to develop the STEM skills of adults who are underserved and underrepresented in those subjects.Read the full story |
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2022-10-12 Some assessment tools which measure children’s thinking skills may have provided inaccurate information about poor urban students because they are modelled on wealthier – mostly white – populations.Read the full story |
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2022-10-07 Data from Rwanda including some of the first published information on school enrolment rates in the Global South since the COVID-19 outbreak suggest a widely-predicted spike in drop-outs has ‘not materialised’. Researchers warn however that a slower-than-expected decline in numbers may now be underway.Read the full story. |
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2022-09-17 Disney’s Encanto could be ‘cinematherapy’ for children coping with the psychological effects of trauma a new professional analysis suggests.Read the full story |
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2022-09-14 The often-unconscious role that children’s literature plays in kick-starting the “casual marginalisation” of single mothers is to be systematically analysed for the first time in a new research project. Read the full story here. |
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2022-09-02 Faculty researcher and comics expert Joe Sutliff Sanders discusses his early passion for Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman and how Netflix’s new adaptation challenges ideas about who ‘owns’ comics and culture.Read the full story |
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