Dr Stephen Scoffham looks at how experts are helping with the Covid-19 pandemic and how they can help with a new way of living in harmony with the environment in the future.
Category: Education
In the face of adversity: willing teachers to carry on
As we experience unprecedented times of Coronavirus, Wendy Cobb discusses how this is an opportunity to make a transformational shift in educational policy and practice.
Shifting ground at Heathrow airport
Dr Stephen Scoffham asks if the recent Court of Appeal ruling on the third Heathrow runway is a tipping point in more ways than one for environmental issues.
Supervision in education
Today, Barnardo’s Scotland released a report calling for more support to be made available for the mental health and wellbeing of teaching staff within schools. Dr Alan Bainbridge, argues that the provision of supervision in education should be a moral obligation.
Teacher – Find your brave!
Wendy Cobb explains how the Faculty of Education is supporting teachers to support emotional health and wellbeing in the classroom.
Helping children find their inner brave!
Dr Kristy Howells looks at how daily physical activity in schools can help support children both physical and mentally to maintain good health.
Sparking national conversation
The Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton is sparking a national conversation today by launching a UK-wide survey to help improve early childhood. Senior Lecturer Mary Wood explains why studies like this are so important.
The bad ‘science’ underpinning baseline assessment in primary schools
Dr Kate Smith explains why the government’s new baseline assessment for children is unlikely to show us much about children’s progress as learners.
Relationships Education is more than just sex
Ahead of World Mental Health Day, Wendy Cobb, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education and Mary Taylor, Head of Programmes at Charity Family Links explore how Relationships and Sex Education (RSE), to be made compulsory in schools, can support the development of social connectedness with families, schools and communities.
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Our house is on fire
As forest fires rage from Brazil to Indonesia, Christ Church academics from the Faculty of Education discuss what can be done from an institutional point of view.