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.
Character Education and Its Place in 21st Century Society?
This article explores the role character education plays within education policy and its implementati...
Queer Pedagogy
A discussion on anti-oppressive and LGBTQ+ pedagogies and how it can be utilised to create a more inclusive and excit...
Making Access to Whole Class Ensemble Teaching and Learning Inclusive
This blog offers a brief summary of the lived experiences of teachers using adapted musical instruments within the...
Education through sub-culture: reconceptualising the ‘classroom’
Gary Poynton explores the concept of reimagining the classroom as an informal learning space outside of the instituti...
bell hooks and the Exhaustion of Critical Pedagogy
Far from being an agent of “radical social change,” critical pedagogy is an obstacle to it.
Constructing effective critical dialogue through group work in a Key Stage One classroom
Using ideas based in critical pedagogy I discuss ways in which young children might be engaged in effective critical ...
What is Missing: Actualization
How do we constructively transgress in our teaching when our focus is multicultural poetry, but we live in ...
'Becoming Hybrid': Reflections on Teaching during the COVID-19 Pandemic
This blog centres on my reflections on the concept of hybridity in relation to experiences of primary school teaching ...
‘You’re sitting the smartest, well done’: Young children’s embodied experiences of starting school in England.
This blog gives an overview of my EdD thesis ‘Young children’s bodies: multiple perspectives on the embodied experienc...
Reconceptualising professional learning and development through a Froebelian lens
This blog reports on the findings from my PhD thesis ‘Reconceptualising professional learning and development through ...
“We became an emergency service”: school leaders reflecting on their experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic
This blog gives a summary of the research process and some of the key findings of the first phase of the Co-MAP project...
Reporting the reporters
This blog offers a critique of the long-awaited media report recently published by The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB)....
A match made in the Academy – When Conductive Education met the ‘Posts’
This blog gives a brief conceptualisation of contemporary conductive education with the aid of a ‘posts’ conversation,...
Open School Doors transitions to Co-MAP
This blog gives an overview of the transition of the Open School Doors Erasmus+ funded project into the recently launch...
International Co-MAP project launches with Birmingham Schools of Sanctuary
This blog gives an overview of a new international creative research project led by Birmingham City University that ex...