International Perspectives on Alternative Education

Policy and practice

• Martin Mills
• Gillean McCluskey

The book explores alternative forms of schooling from the position of academics, policy workers and those working and studying in such schools. Accounts of first-hand experience working and leading in alternative schools or at policy level across eight national contexts bring alive their strengths and the challenges that can arise.

Examination Standards

How measures and meanings differ around the world

• Jo-Anne Baird
• Tina Isaacs
• Dennis Opposs
• Lena Gray

An international team of authorities in the field of standard setting discuss what standard setting is and should be. Their accounts of a representative selection of jurisdictions (Chile, England, France, Georgia, Ireland, Queensland, South Africa, Sweden, and the United States) are accompanied by lively critical commentaries from other experts in this domain. Together, the editors challenge the notion that there is a single superior way of thinking about national examinations, and instead encourage educators and policymakers to engage with the multiple perspectives offered here, and to consider carefully the complex issues raised.

Children’s Literature in a Multiliterate World

• Nicola Daly
• Libby Limbrick
• Pam Dix

The International Board on Books for Young People, IBBY, presents a collection by 12 scholars of children's literature about outstanding stories and picture books that explore issues of identity, belonging and empathy in many parts of the world.

Hierarchy, Markets and Networks

Analysing the ‘self-improving school-led system’ agenda in England and the implications for schools

• Toby Greany
• Rob Higham

This report analyses how schools in England have interpreted and begun to respond to the government’s ‘self-improving school-led system’ (SISS) policy agenda. Based on a large-scale, four-year, mixed-methods study, the report asks whether SISS represent a genuine basis for an equitable and inclusive ‘school-led’ system.

Machine Learning and Human Intelligence

The future of education for the 21st century

• Rosemary Luckin

Intelligence is at the heart of what makes us human, but we invest artificial intelligence (AI) with qualities it does not have. Rosemary Luckin proposes a way to understand the complexity of human intelligence, offering clear-sighted recommendations for how educators can draw on what AI does best to nurture and expand our human capabilities.

Speaking Out against Racism in the University Space

• Shirin Housee

This powerful combination of accounts by minoritized students of their experiences and views, a frame of analysis based on Critical Race Theory, and the personal affinity and empathy with her students of the author, yield valuable insights into racism in higher education institutions, and indicate how it can be tackled.

Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Perspectives from UCL

• Jason P. Davies
• Norbert Pachler

Drawing on examples from across the disciplines, this collection demonstrates how UCL has set up initiatives to raise the profile of teaching and give it parity of esteem with research. It explains what staff and students have done to create an environment in which students can learn by discovery, through research-based education.

Evaluating Equity and Widening Participation in Higher Education

• Penny Jane Burke
• Annette Hayton
• Jacqueline Stevenson

This collection considers relationships between research and evaluation, and the ethical and moral dilemmas raised when evaluating equity and widening participation in higher education. The framework of praxis the editors have created helps justify government funding towards university-led equity initiatives and ensure appropriate use of resources.

Faith and Experience in Education

Essays from Quaker perspectives

• Don Rowe
• Anne Watson

Twelve Quakers describe how the values of love, truth, justice, equality, peace and community can wholly guide educational practice. Their counter-blast to the reduction of teaching to technical skills, and of child development to a series of tests, shows how these values can inspire all British school sectors, Early Years and HE. For all teachers.

Catalyst

An evidence-informed, collaborative professional learning resource for teacher leaders and other leaders working within and across schools

• Louise Stoll
• Carol Taylor
• Karen Spence-Thomas
• Chris Brown

Catalyst is designed to support and promote the change, professional learning and development of groups of teacher leaders, both within and across schools. It consists of two sets of evidence-informed resource cards and a clear and detailed facilitator guide.