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.

Although it feels like a lifetime ago now due to Covid-19 restrictions - I used to have the privilege of visiting music teachers and local schools as part of my research assistant role at CSPACE. Sometimes these would be part of a funded research project, but other times they were just to see new and interesting practices, and to hear about some of the challenges and delights of classroom music teaching directly from those living it every day. One of these visits was to Manor Church of England Academy where their inspiring music teacher, Dave Lowe had been developing composing pedagogies using Apple iPads.

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The purpose of this piece is to encourage readers to reflect on the source/s of their theory and to critique the need ...

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CSPACE Blog

Visiting Manor Church of England Academy: thoughts about music technology and gender

From practitioner inquiry on doctoral supervision into an internally funded creative research project

4:1 gets the job done-right?

Co-developing students and staff classroom consciousness – some key ingredients

Spinning the child: musical constructions of childhood through records, radio and television

Coming soon – the BCU School of Education journal magazine!

The place of teacher assessment in Primary School statutory testing

The Research Garden: finding your way through the undergrowth and having the courage to try

Threshold concepts and formative assessment within Key Stage 3 group composing

Critical Perspective 2: Formative Presentations

Moments of Light: Loss, Work and Research

Holiday food programmes and food insecurity prevention- recommendations for delivery.

Crossing boundaries: reflections on being an academic and a writer of fiction

Home schooling; Children; Families; School; Special Educational Needs and Disabilities

Lockdown in Theory

Research Informed Teaching