Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge
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"We’ve had a discourse for decades about meritocracy, but it’s a fig leaf to hide the ways our economies are not achieving social mobility."
Hilary Cremin spoke to the Future Learning Design Podcast about why we need to "rewild" education and how to do it.
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Hilary Cremin spoke to the Future Learning Design Podcast about why we need to "rewild" education and how to do it.
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Rewilding Education - A Conversation with Prof. Hilary Cremin — Good Impact Labs
The idea of rewilding is now a common topic of conversation in response to the depletion of biodiversity and natural habitats for local wildlife and widespread industrialisation and globalisation of f...
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November 19, 2025 at 4:40 PM
"We’ve had a discourse for decades about meritocracy, but it’s a fig leaf to hide the ways our economies are not achieving social mobility."
Hilary Cremin spoke to the Future Learning Design Podcast about why we need to "rewild" education and how to do it.
www.goodimpactlabs.com/podcast/prof...
Hilary Cremin spoke to the Future Learning Design Podcast about why we need to "rewild" education and how to do it.
www.goodimpactlabs.com/podcast/prof...
We've added capacity for this event due to demand but tickets are going! If you would like to join this discussion with Hilary Cremin and Luke Kemp about how to educate for existential threats, please sign up now.
Nov 26, 5pm - 6.30pm at the Faculty of Education; tickets are free.
Nov 26, 5pm - 6.30pm at the Faculty of Education; tickets are free.
Join Hilary Cremin and Luke Kemp for this interactive dialogue at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge about the existential threats facing humanity and how education might respond. Nov 26, 5pm - 6.30pm. It's free and open to all!
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How can we educate for existential threats?
Join Hilary Cremin and Luke Kemp for an interactive dialogue about the threats facing humanity and how education might respond.
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November 17, 2025 at 12:46 PM
We've added capacity for this event due to demand but tickets are going! If you would like to join this discussion with Hilary Cremin and Luke Kemp about how to educate for existential threats, please sign up now.
Nov 26, 5pm - 6.30pm at the Faculty of Education; tickets are free.
Nov 26, 5pm - 6.30pm at the Faculty of Education; tickets are free.
Could the spread of Generative AI lead to new, talk-based approaches to teaching and learning? A new conceptual paper by @rupertwegerif.bsky.social and Imogen Casebourne suggests it might.
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November 17, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Could the spread of Generative AI lead to new, talk-based approaches to teaching and learning? A new conceptual paper by @rupertwegerif.bsky.social and Imogen Casebourne suggests it might.
content.educ.cam.ac.uk/content/we-s...
content.educ.cam.ac.uk/content/we-s...
Should you be getting your child an AI toy for Christmas? Cambridge expert @ejgoodacre.bsky.social discusses how her research with @drjennyg.bsky.social is exploring what we know - and don't know - about the new wave of toys hitting the market.
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AI toys are the future of play. I'm a researcher trying to figure out if that's a good thing for kids.
Researcher Emily Goodacre is exploring how AI-powered toys impact kids. Here's what she wants parents to consider.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Should you be getting your child an AI toy for Christmas? Cambridge expert @ejgoodacre.bsky.social discusses how her research with @drjennyg.bsky.social is exploring what we know - and don't know - about the new wave of toys hitting the market.
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They submitted oral & written evidence calling for more research on mental health in the workspace, a more consistent measurement of productivity, & stronger empirical evidence to better know the impact of home-based working.
November 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
They submitted oral & written evidence calling for more research on mental health in the workspace, a more consistent measurement of productivity, & stronger empirical evidence to better know the impact of home-based working.
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Today, the @houseoflords.parliament.uk Home-based Working Committee released a report which repeatedly references research by an interdisciplinary team at @cam.ac.uk highlighting the need for better data on productivity & mental health in the workplace to inform policy on home-based working.
November 13, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Today, the @houseoflords.parliament.uk Home-based Working Committee released a report which repeatedly references research by an interdisciplinary team at @cam.ac.uk highlighting the need for better data on productivity & mental health in the workplace to inform policy on home-based working.
To mark its 10th anniversary, this newly-published article highlights three projects led by the University of Cambridge PEDAL Centre which show how centring children in play research can generate new insights that would otherwise remain hidden.
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Innovative methods to centre children in research: celebrating 10 years of play with the PEDAL Research Centre
Centring children in play research is fundamental for both children and researchers. It also offers the opportunity to gain important insights that would otherwise remain hidden from view for other...
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November 11, 2025 at 9:02 AM
To mark its 10th anniversary, this newly-published article highlights three projects led by the University of Cambridge PEDAL Centre which show how centring children in play research can generate new insights that would otherwise remain hidden.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Three years after ChatGPT burst on to the scene,
@rupertwegerif.bsky.social spoke to ABC's future tense about its potential impact on education. Listen again here: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
@rupertwegerif.bsky.social spoke to ABC's future tense about its potential impact on education. Listen again here: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Learning how to learn in the age of generative AI - ABC listen
It's exactly three years since ChatGPT burst onto the scene. In that short period of time the process of academic assessment has been in upheaval. Across the world educators are trying to address how ...
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November 7, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Three years after ChatGPT burst on to the scene,
@rupertwegerif.bsky.social spoke to ABC's future tense about its potential impact on education. Listen again here: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
@rupertwegerif.bsky.social spoke to ABC's future tense about its potential impact on education. Listen again here: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Making RE part of the national curriculum will promote tolerance – but only if it’s taught in the right way. Daniel Moulin discusses new recommendations for Religious Education in the curriculum in @uk.theconversation.com
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theconversation.com/making-re-pa...
Making RE part of the national curriculum will promote tolerance – but only if it’s taught in the right way
Until now religious education teaching has been compulsory but patchy in quality.
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November 6, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Making RE part of the national curriculum will promote tolerance – but only if it’s taught in the right way. Daniel Moulin discusses new recommendations for Religious Education in the curriculum in @uk.theconversation.com
theconversation.com/making-re-pa...
theconversation.com/making-re-pa...
Join Hilary Cremin and Luke Kemp for this interactive dialogue at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge about the existential threats facing humanity and how education might respond. Nov 26, 5pm - 6.30pm. It's free and open to all!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-can-we...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-can-we...
How can we educate for existential threats?
Join Hilary Cremin and Luke Kemp for an interactive dialogue about the threats facing humanity and how education might respond.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Join Hilary Cremin and Luke Kemp for this interactive dialogue at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge about the existential threats facing humanity and how education might respond. Nov 26, 5pm - 6.30pm. It's free and open to all!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-can-we...
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Action on climate change and a just response to the climate crisis are challenges for education. This University of Cambridge article summarises how researchers are exploring how learning can nurture justice, sustainability, and wellbeing for people, planet, and peace.
www.cam.ac.uk/stories/educ...
www.cam.ac.uk/stories/educ...
A course for climate justice
Cambridge sees education as key to a just future
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November 4, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Action on climate change and a just response to the climate crisis are challenges for education. This University of Cambridge article summarises how researchers are exploring how learning can nurture justice, sustainability, and wellbeing for people, planet, and peace.
www.cam.ac.uk/stories/educ...
www.cam.ac.uk/stories/educ...
The Government’s imminent curriculum review presents an opportunity to reassess the place of languages education in our schools. What, though, does the evidence base tell us?
Join us for this University of Cambridge seminar exploring some potential ways forward.
Join us for this University of Cambridge seminar exploring some potential ways forward.
October 8, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The Government’s imminent curriculum review presents an opportunity to reassess the place of languages education in our schools. What, though, does the evidence base tell us?
Join us for this University of Cambridge seminar exploring some potential ways forward.
Join us for this University of Cambridge seminar exploring some potential ways forward.
Applications are OPEN for the Cambridge Doctor of Education (EdD) programme starting 2026: a part-time research degree for working professionals who want to use the power of education to drive innovation in any sector. Open to UK and international students. www.educ.cam.ac.uk/courses/post...
October 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Applications are OPEN for the Cambridge Doctor of Education (EdD) programme starting 2026: a part-time research degree for working professionals who want to use the power of education to drive innovation in any sector. Open to UK and international students. www.educ.cam.ac.uk/courses/post...
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'A new book by Head of Cambridge’s Faculty of Education, @camedfac.bsky.social, calls for radical change in a school system it describes as over-standardised, stressful, and ‘sick.' @cam.ac.uk
We are crying out for a completely new vision of what education involves, however challenging that may be.'
We are crying out for a completely new vision of what education involves, however challenging that may be.'
'In Rewilding Education, Prof. Hilary Cremin argues that modern schooling is defined by an obsession with standardisation and outdated thinking, while it fails to nurture creativity, critical thought, or the physical and mental health of students and teachers.'
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Schools are educating children for a vanishing future. Is it time to ‘rewild’ the system?
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October 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
'A new book by Head of Cambridge’s Faculty of Education, @camedfac.bsky.social, calls for radical change in a school system it describes as over-standardised, stressful, and ‘sick.' @cam.ac.uk
We are crying out for a completely new vision of what education involves, however challenging that may be.'
We are crying out for a completely new vision of what education involves, however challenging that may be.'
Students from less wealthy backgrounds are more likely to attend schools where learning a foreign language to GCSE is considered optional – and not necessarily even encouraged – new research by @karenforbes.bsky.social shows.
Read more: content.educ.cam.ac.uk/content/poor...
Read more: content.educ.cam.ac.uk/content/poor...
Poorer students more likely to miss out on studying a language at GCSE
Students from less wealthy backgrounds are more likely to attend schools where learning a language to GCSE is treated as optional – and not necessarily strongly encouraged – new research shows.
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October 2, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Students from less wealthy backgrounds are more likely to attend schools where learning a foreign language to GCSE is considered optional – and not necessarily even encouraged – new research by @karenforbes.bsky.social shows.
Read more: content.educ.cam.ac.uk/content/poor...
Read more: content.educ.cam.ac.uk/content/poor...
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Very happy to share this article exploring the influence of school-level curriculum policies on both uptake and attainment in GCSE modern languages in England @camedfac.bsky.social Freely available to download - key points below ⬇️ (1/6)
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Promoting modern languages beyond the compulsory stage: exploring the relationship between school-level curriculum policy, GCSE uptake and attainment in England
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October 1, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Very happy to share this article exploring the influence of school-level curriculum policies on both uptake and attainment in GCSE modern languages in England @camedfac.bsky.social Freely available to download - key points below ⬇️ (1/6)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
A new book by Professor Hilary Cremin, Head of Cambridge’s Faculty of Education, calls for radical change in a school system it describes as over-standardised, stressful, and ‘sick’. Is it time to think bigger about education reform?
More here: content.educ.cam.ac.uk/content/scho...
More here: content.educ.cam.ac.uk/content/scho...
Schools are educating children for a vanishing future. Is it time to ‘rewild’ the system?
content.educ.cam.ac.uk
September 29, 2025 at 7:25 AM
A new book by Professor Hilary Cremin, Head of Cambridge’s Faculty of Education, calls for radical change in a school system it describes as over-standardised, stressful, and ‘sick’. Is it time to think bigger about education reform?
More here: content.educ.cam.ac.uk/content/scho...
More here: content.educ.cam.ac.uk/content/scho...
The Editorial Board of the Cambridge Journal of Education is seeking education scholars with diverse intellectual interests to join its Editorial Panel.
Find out more at: www.educ.cam.ac.uk/research/cje/
Find out more at: www.educ.cam.ac.uk/research/cje/
September 23, 2025 at 11:25 AM
The Editorial Board of the Cambridge Journal of Education is seeking education scholars with diverse intellectual interests to join its Editorial Panel.
Find out more at: www.educ.cam.ac.uk/research/cje/
Find out more at: www.educ.cam.ac.uk/research/cje/
A new prize for education and social justice research in South Asia has been launched in memory of Dr Arif Naveed. Arif was an outstanding Pakistani social scientist who undertook his doctoral research at the Faculty of Education.
More about the prize here: www.educ.cam.ac.uk/centres/real...
More about the prize here: www.educ.cam.ac.uk/centres/real...
September 22, 2025 at 8:05 AM
A new prize for education and social justice research in South Asia has been launched in memory of Dr Arif Naveed. Arif was an outstanding Pakistani social scientist who undertook his doctoral research at the Faculty of Education.
More about the prize here: www.educ.cam.ac.uk/centres/real...
More about the prize here: www.educ.cam.ac.uk/centres/real...
More about @drjennyg.bsky.social and @ejgoodacre.bsky.social's research on AI toys and children's development here: content.educ.cam.ac.uk/content/new-...
September 19, 2025 at 7:29 AM
More about @drjennyg.bsky.social and @ejgoodacre.bsky.social's research on AI toys and children's development here: content.educ.cam.ac.uk/content/new-...
"It is our collective responsibility to understand how toys powered by artificial intelligence impact young children."
@drjennyg.bsky.social and @ejgoodacre.bsky.social in The Guardian:
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
@drjennyg.bsky.social and @ejgoodacre.bsky.social in The Guardian:
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How will childhood be changed by AI toys? | Letter
Letter: Our study is looking into how toys powered by AI can affect children’s development and their right to privacy, write Dr Emily J Goodacre and Prof Jenny Gibson
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September 19, 2025 at 7:27 AM
"It is our collective responsibility to understand how toys powered by artificial intelligence impact young children."
@drjennyg.bsky.social and @ejgoodacre.bsky.social in The Guardian:
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
@drjennyg.bsky.social and @ejgoodacre.bsky.social in The Guardian:
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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The long-term follow up findings of our Healthy Start, Happy Start study have been published in the @acamh.bsky.social Journal Of Child Psychology And Psychiatry this week.
Read a quick-read summary by @camedfac.bsky.social: content.educ.cam.ac.uk/content/heal...
Read a quick-read summary by @camedfac.bsky.social: content.educ.cam.ac.uk/content/heal...
September 18, 2025 at 1:06 PM
The long-term follow up findings of our Healthy Start, Happy Start study have been published in the @acamh.bsky.social Journal Of Child Psychology And Psychiatry this week.
Read a quick-read summary by @camedfac.bsky.social: content.educ.cam.ac.uk/content/heal...
Read a quick-read summary by @camedfac.bsky.social: content.educ.cam.ac.uk/content/heal...
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Today in our Guardian letter, @drjennyg.bsky.social and I call for a greater public discourse on how AI toys are interacting with young children and the impacts on their development. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
How will childhood be changed by AI toys? | Letter
Letter: Our study is looking into how toys powered by AI can affect children’s development and their right to privacy, write Dr Emily J Goodacre and Prof Jenny Gibson
www.theguardian.com
September 18, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Today in our Guardian letter, @drjennyg.bsky.social and I call for a greater public discourse on how AI toys are interacting with young children and the impacts on their development. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Generative AI doesn't "think" like humans do, but in a new University of Cambridge study which confronted it with an Ancient Greek maths puzzle, it did behave in a curiously "learner-like" way.
Read more here: content.educ.cam.ac.uk/content/chat...
Read more here: content.educ.cam.ac.uk/content/chat...
ChatGPT seemed to “think on the fly” when put through an Ancient Greek maths puzzle
The Artificial Intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT, appeared to improvise ideas and make mistakes like a student in a study that rebooted a 2,400-year-old mathematical challenge.
content.educ.cam.ac.uk
September 18, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Generative AI doesn't "think" like humans do, but in a new University of Cambridge study which confronted it with an Ancient Greek maths puzzle, it did behave in a curiously "learner-like" way.
Read more here: content.educ.cam.ac.uk/content/chat...
Read more here: content.educ.cam.ac.uk/content/chat...
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This animation provides an update on the long term findings of the Healthy Start, Happy Start study testing a relationship-based parenting programme.
@nihr.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @ihealthvisiting.bsky.social @acamh.bsky.social @camedfac.bsky.social
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September 17, 2025 at 11:18 AM
This animation provides an update on the long term findings of the Healthy Start, Happy Start study testing a relationship-based parenting programme.
@nihr.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @ihealthvisiting.bsky.social @acamh.bsky.social @camedfac.bsky.social
@nihr.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @ihealthvisiting.bsky.social @acamh.bsky.social @camedfac.bsky.social