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.
E-EDGE series: Post New Governance as democratic alternative
In this blog, Dr Andy Allen, Co-Researcher in the BELMAS project, discusses Post New Governance as a democratic altern...
Playful encounters. Switching-in to switching-off.
Playful encounters. Switching-in to switching-off .
The history of Doctoral supervision: some early reconnaissance
A brief account of some early reconnaissance underway on the history of Doctoral supervision.
Troubling academic writing in the academy: a conversation about more than writing
Unbeknownst to each other, two academics discover they have much in common. Having published books that seem to speak ...
How can I hear if I am not listening?
This blog discusses the rethinking of knowledge - rich classroom spaces.
Students at University: my teaching vision and approach
This blog discusses a teacher's vision for teaching students in Higher Education.
Spirals and all that
What is the place of spirals in thinking about musical development?
Reimagining University Campus Tours
Reimagining University Campus Tours: How might key principles of critical pedagogy achievably and creatively enhance ou...
bell hooks and the Exhaustion of Critical Pedagogy
Far from being an agent of “radical social change,” critical pedagogy is an obstacle to it.
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...
What is Missing: Actualization
How do we constructively transgress in our teaching when our focus is multicultural poetry, but we live in ...
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...
Peers supporting the development of peers in Initial Teacher Education: Is professional dialogue an effective approach?
Learning, whilst typically through a vertical axis of master/apprentice, can also take place horizontally, between pe...
Education is Change
This piece considers what Education as the Practice of Freedom (hooks 1994) could mean and the forces and powers gener...
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 ...