CSPACE Blog
The Centre for the Study of Practice and Culture in Education (CSPACE) is a community of researchers, lecturers, practitioners and students committed to exploring culture and practice across a wide spectrum of educational settings. This blog will offer insight into our inventive and creative approaches to research, as well as promoting our work on inclusion and social justice across a range of educational fields.
Students at University: my teaching vision and approach
This blog discusses a teacher's vision for teaching students in Higher Education.
Playful encounters. Switching-in to switching-off.
Playful encounters. Switching-in to switching-off .
Dis-tance learning: A dystopian view of the virtual classroom
A dystopian representation of the virtual classroom.
The value of professional associations to the ‘hybrid’ and ‘hidden’ curriculum of doctoral education
This blog explores the value of professional associations to the ‘hybrid’ and ‘hidden’ curriculum of docto...
E-EDGE series: The Birmingham Project
This blog introduces the first series of the Educators in Educational Governance (E-EDGE) blogs: exploring the profess...
E-EDGE series: Governors and Communities of Practice
An understanding of the Academic Staff Governors’ positioning within a governing body is paramount in maximising the k...
E-EDGE series: Post New Governance as democratic alternative
In this blog, Dr Andy Allen, Co-Researcher in the BELMAS project, discusses Post New Governance as a democratic altern...
Reimagining University Campus Tours
Reimagining University Campus Tours: How might key principles of critical pedagogy achievably and creatively enhance ou...
Education, Social Justice and Survival in a Time of Crisis
This blog (written in a personal capacity) advocates an educational response to the crisis we face based on s...
Education is Change
This piece considers what Education as the Practice of Freedom (hooks 1994) could mean and the forces and powers gener...
Empowering community governor decision-making in school improvement
In collaborating with community governors who have experienced failed governance in an environment of special measur...
Peers supporting the development of peers in Initial Teacher Education: Is professional dialogue an effective approach?
Learning, whilst typically through a vertical axis of master/apprentice, can also take place horizontally, between pe...
Why We Need Media Education in the Early Years
This blog reflects on the radical idea that we need to introduce media education for pre-school age children in Early ...
How a ‘one size fits all’ approach in secondary English does not work!
A critical analysis on the English curriculum at secondary level and how it is both constructed and produced leadin...
Reflection and dialogue in embracing change: from primary teacher to academic researcher
Having been asked to help organise the Centre for the Study and Practice of Culture in Education’s ( CSpace ) summer...