Research News
New Publications
No Country for the Young: education from New Labour to the Coalition
by Ken Jones and Richard Hatcher
L'ecole en Europe by Ken Jones
is a revised and updated version of 'Schooling in Western Europe', published in 2007, and translated since then into Spanish and Italian. It aims to give an account of policies and policy conflicts in the remaking of European school systems
The Routledge International Handbook of Creative Learning, of which Ken Jones is co-editor, brings together more than 40 articles from a range ofcountries. two pieces by Ken Jones are included - one on 'Capitalism, Creativity and Learning: some chapters from a history' and another on 'Democratic Creativity
Art, Equality and Learning Pedagogies Against the State
by Dennis Atkinson
Research Centres
Centre for the Arts and LearningCentre for Language, Culture and Learning
Identities and Social Justice Research Group
Conference reports
NAEYC conference - Margaret McMillan research
The Centrality of Art, Design and Performing Arts to Education conference - What is art and design pedagogy?
Poetry Matters - ESRC Seminar Series - Poetry pedagogy 3: supporting the intellectual and aesthetic development of all learners through poetry
In the News
Bengali TV makes film on research by Dr Charmian Kenner
Children's community language skills go unrecognised
Article on work by Luma Hameed teacher of Arabic at Sarah Bonnell School, Newham, as part of Goldsmiths research project 'Creativity in the Community Languages Classroom' funded by the Nuffield Foundation. Lumar is a former PGCE Languages student at Goldsmiths
Professor Rosalyn George featured in The Guardian and on BBC Breakfast