CSPACE Conference 2021 Blog

An opportunity for change in higher education

The coronavirus pandemic has caused onerous changes to the work/life balance of staff and students in universities, to which they are trying to adapt.   The quality of student/teacher interaction has been affected by the remote learning programme and some universities are facing closure, but this is eclipsed by the wider social problem of the digitally excluded.   Could a solution be found in equitable expansion?

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Joined-up university services in seminar teaching during the lockdown

In this post,  Abdulla Sodiq  shares their experience at Birmingham City University in using a joined-up services ap...

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Pedagogies in a pandemic - Impacts of COVID-19 on music in the secondary classroom

Secondary school music teaching has always been demanding, but the Covid-19 pandemic has brought a new set of challeng...

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Worry, worry! Not happy! Some sinking feelings about the National Tutoring Programme – a new initiative floundering already?

Some personal insider anxieties about the National Tutoring Programme, a new mode of study beyond the university.

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The importance of doing research as a teacher educator

Universities are academic institutions, and this means research is at the hearth of what they do, right?  Factoring i...

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What are student’s perception of 'Interdisciplinary' practice within an interdisciplinary degree?

The exploration of students’ perceptions of professional identity and impact of pedagogy within an interdisciplinary d...

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The Community Governor in School Improvement

Working with a community governor as collaborator demonstrated the strengths of the methodological framework and highl...

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Sketchbook Theory: Art and Design Curricula made visible through the visual

To make the art and design curriculum inclusive, different and relevant I argue that art teachers should explore the o...

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Labyrinth / Establishment

Education as a labyrinth – a journey full of created wonders and unexplored spaces? What passageway would you take?

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Lefebvre / Césaire: Decolonising and Differentialising HE Space

To decolonise our HE curriculum, we need to understand colonisation as thingification, then co-produce educational spa...

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Making and breaking chains: first link

Making and breaking chains is the first in a blog sequence examining the domestic everyday of education activism in th...

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Scuse me! Your petticoat’s hanging out - AGAIN!

Metaphor. Similes.   Analogies. Call them what you will!   Are they relevant?   Are they accurate?

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Enough of the “Great”

How ‘ romanticised’ visions of the ‘composer’ can impact teaching, learning and assessment of composing in educatio...

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Doctorates as stories? Ursula Le Guin’s ‘Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction’ and the doctoral journey

A reflection on how a non-linear approach may help students be more innovative, creative and motivated when writing th...

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Queering your pitch – putting academic writing to different uses

A queered analysis of lecturers’ practices and assumptions as a politically generative exercise that opens up spaces f...

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The rhythms of pastoral practice in a sixth form college

This research represents a rehearsal of concept and a ‘dry run’ in the expression of my theoretical ideas and prac...

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AI literacy – the role of primary education

This blog post responds to the new UK AI Council’s Roadmap’s vision that “every child leaves school with basic sense o...

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Inform, Educate, Entertain: The BBC at the end of history

This post links the founding principles of the BBC with Adam Curtis’s latest documentary and its wider application to ...

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