Our colleague Dr Jenny Byrne has published a new paper on reframing teacher education in England in the journal Educational Review. ABSTRACT Bildung has a long tradition in continental European education but in England it is less well known and is underused to theorise about education. In this paper the German concept of Bildung is […]

Rosalyn Hyde and Lucy Hoyes have been awarded a CHEP (Centre for Higher Education Practice) Teaching Enhancement Grant for a new project. Trainee teachers experience what is often described as a ‘rollercoaster of emotions’ whilst on a PGCE programme so the project will seek to collect data from secondary mathematics trainees in order to understand […]

A comparative paper with a contribution from Dr Downey and Dr Bokhove has appeared in the International Journal of Educational Research: “Efficacy, explore, and exchange: Studies on social side of teacher education from England, Spain, and US” The abstract: This study attempts to respond to a recent call for a more social and collaborative approach […]

Dr Bokhove delivered a session at Oxford University on the many forms of ‘instruction. Direct instruction is a hot topic in school, but discussions about it often end up with people talking past each other, as the term can mean several things. In this talk I will look at different ways of conceptualising ‘direct instruction’, […]

The University of Southampton has been awarded a research grant from the Leverhulme Trust for a 26-month project directed by Dr Charis Voutsina. The title of the study is “Cultural rules and uses of written numerals in children’s everyday environments”. The research will employ qualitative methods and participatory data-collection tools to trace and analyse preschool […]

Escape rooms are a popular game genre that has hit high streets all over the UK and the world. In the game a group of players needs to complete a number of puzzles to succeed in a mission and/or escape a locked room. Escape rooms have a huge educational potential as a tool to increase […]

A new Open Access paper was published by Dr Charis Voutsina in the Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education. The paper examines qualitative differences between equations of similar syntax in mathematics textbooks and provides a nuanced determination of contextual and structural aspects of ‘variation’ in how the equal sign is presented in elementary […]