How important are relationships on learning? Depends on what you mean by relationship.

Government pledges changes to subject make-up of league table measure - despite review calling for no changes

How do we address the gap in attainment between the most advantaged and disadvantaged students in the UK? Pioneering research, led by the University of Bristol, reveals the reforms most likely to equa...

Why Powerful Knowledge Needs a Pedagogy to Match

Episodic memories are highly dynamic and change in nonlinear ways over time. This dynamism is not captured by existing systems consolidation theories that predict a unidirectional process where memories are first supported by the hippocampus and then the neocortex. Here, I propose a 3D state space for episodic memories. The first two dimensions relate to whether episodic retrieval is driven by the hippocampus and the neocortex, critically allowing for independent and additive contributions from both regions. The third dimension relates to the episodic specificity of retrieval. Memories can be located at any point in this state space and move to any other location. The state space captures the dynamic nature of episodic memory and broadens the search space of possible memory states and transformations across time.

Why the distinction between “schemas” and “mental models” tell us more more about our language than our minds.

Why Simplistic Narratives Miss the Point

I’ve been teaching secondary school students for over a decade, and in that time, I’ve dived deep into many aspects of teaching.

Paraphrasing a small-scale classroom study on exposition and engagement; an origin story in content delivery evolution...

The gravitational pull of examinations on schools and teachers

After years of teaching in mainstream schools and now as an outreach teacher, this educator argues that inclusion is key to stopping pupils from falling through the cracks

"They can because they think they can." ('Possunt quia posse videntur') Virgil's 'Aeneid' High expectations can be a mysterious thing. Something ineffable. You can understand them when you experien...

TRIGGER WARNING: If you don’t want to be reminded of VAK, wordsearches, puppet shows, sugar paper covered walls, or anything else of the whizz, bang, pop of teaching in the 2000s, stop reading now and...

A new replication challenges the evidence behind one of education’s core ideas.