2021-03-26 A new critical analysis suggests that our relationship with hugely successful series like Stranger Things and particularly some of the more performative acts of fan-worship around them provides us with a template for new ways of thinking and engaging with the world which arguably are stranger still.Read the full story here. |
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2021-03-23 A new study by Frances Foster who studies ancient education at the Faculty shows how Romans sometimes interpreted the relics of their ancient antecedents by using educated guesswork to supplement what they actually knew - rather like modern-day visitors might when viewing exhibits at a museum.Read the full story here. |
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2021-03-19 Thankfully schools have reopened for the last few weeks of term but for most of it trainee teachers have been undertaking placements online. In this short series of articles we have been asking Faculty trainees what that experience has been like and what they have gained from it. In this final article Chloe Brown from the Primary PGCE course explains how it has sharpened her ability to anticipate potential barriers to learning and why she now believes that learning to teach remotely may actually help rather than hinder the training experience.Read the full interview here. |
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2021-03-16 Dr Tyler Denmead is undertaking a virtual ‘tour’ of his book The Creative Underclass starting this month. The book was originally published in 2019 and draws on his earlier experiences as the founder of an arts programme for marginalised youth in a US city. In so doing it raises uncomfortable questions about the role of cultural projects in wider processes of urban regeneration and how they might easily help to perpetuate exactly the sort of social and racial injustice that they seek to address.Read the full story here. |
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2021-03-15 A home-based parenting programme to prevent childhood behaviour problems which very unusually focuses on children when they are still toddlers and in some cases just 12 months old has proven highly successful during its first public health trial.Read the full story here. |
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2021-03-09 As much as a year’s worth of past academic progress made by disadvantaged children in the Global South may have been wiped out by school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic researchers have calculated.Read the full story here. |
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2021-03-08 This article is from a series which asks how trainee teachers have found the experience of undertaking remote school placements during the pandemic and what they have gained from it. Here Lucy Rockliffe a trainee Biology teacher explains how teaching online has strengthened her grasp and appreciation of certain aspects of her practice: from classroom communication to the importance of building positive and productive connections with students. Read the full interview here. |
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2021-02-25 This time last year Fenella Symes 21 was on a high-flying course in pharmacy which given her aptitude for science seemed a natural choice. Then she surprised pretty much everyone by leaving early and embarking on the Primary PGCE course at Cambridge instead. It was quite a leap; but six months later she is glad she trusted her gut and made the choice she did. Here she explains why.Read the full interview. |
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2021-02-25 In this short series of articles we ask current PGCE trainees about their experiences undertaking school placements remotely. Here Louis Lescure who is on the Faculty's Primary PGCE course shares some thoughts.Read the full interview here. |
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2021-02-24 A new analysis of education debates on both social media and in traditional media outlets suggests that the education sector is being increasingly influenced by populism and the wider social media ‘culture wars’. Read the full story here. |
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