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.

Talking with and listening to Black Muslims of Britain

This blog considers a landmark report ‘ Proudly Muslim and Black Report 2022 ’ launched by the Muslim Council of Bri...

What do we talk about when we talk about education?

This blog explores the challenges of, and possibilities around, decolonising educational spaces within the context of t...

Managing professional literacies in HE: transitioning from workplace literacies to vocationally orientated lecturing in HE

This blog explores second career lecturers and vocational students need more support to navigate both work-based and H...

Igniting a collective ethics of care in our teaching and learning community: learning from the ‘Walking in Students’ Shoes’ project

This blog focuses on the lessons learnt from the ‘Walking in Students’ Shoes’ collaborative research project and the w...

Collaborative, Community Mapping with Young People as ‘Liberatory Pedagogy’

This blog opens up a dialogue on bell hooks’s call for ‘liberatory pedagogy’, using a collaborative community mapping ...

Pedagogical Hope: Decolonising Seminar Discussions on Slavery

In this blog, I reflect on an example of critical pedagogy seminar discussions on the slave trade and the opportunities...

Bodies remembered, bodies under siege: bell hooks’ legacy in an age of border violence

This blog is a short provocation examining bell hooks’ urgent call to remember the body in the classroom, exploring w...

What now adult educators?

An open letter to adult educators in times of social, political, and environmental crises.

Dis-tance learning: A dystopian view of the virtual classroom

A dystopian representation of the virtual classroom.

E-EDGE series: The Birmingham Project

This blog introduces the first series of the Educators in Educational Governance (E-EDGE) blogs: exploring the profess...

If ‘[the classroom] remains the most radical space of possibility in the academy', then what possibilities are opened in supervisory space?

A discussion of what ‘ differential ’ supervisory space might look and feel like.