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Ioe London Blog | Expert opinion from the UK's leading centre for education research
5y ago
We’ll soon be moving to a new platform, to join the prestigious UCL stable of blogs at https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe. We hope you’re enjoying our rich mix of policy, practice and philosophy and will want to make sure your bookmarks are updated so you don’t miss any posts. For those of you currently subscribed to notifications of new IOE blog posts via email - you'll soon receive a request in your inbox to confirm that you wish to keep receiving notifications about new posts. We have a fascinating roster of content coming up, so please stay with us!
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Ioe London Blog | Expert opinion from the UK's leading centre for education research
5y ago
Yana Manyukhina. Lockdown unquestionably brings significant challenges into children’s education. But it also presents an opportunity for parents and carers – and teachers – to create new, more inspiring and more freeing learning environments for children learning at home. What…
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Ioe London Blog | Expert opinion from the UK's leading centre for education research
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Francesca Borgonovi and Elodie Andrieu. In Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam illustrated the decline of social capital in the United States and traced it to changes in how individuals spend time at work, family and leisure – alone. According to Putnam,…
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Ioe London Blog | Expert opinion from the UK's leading centre for education research
5y ago
Lorna Unwin, Ruth Lupton, Stephanie Thompson, Sanne Velthuis, republished from the BERA blog. In the public debate about the impacts of the Covid-19 lockdown on education, much attention has understandably been given to concerns about disadvantaged children falling behind at school,…
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Ioe London Blog | Expert opinion from the UK's leading centre for education research
5y ago
Rob Davies, republished from the CLOSER blog. It is clear the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic for individuals, families and society will be deep and long-lasting. However, we still don’t fully understand the impact of the virus, nationally or regionally, or how…
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Ioe London Blog | Expert opinion from the UK's leading centre for education research
5y ago
Farid Panjwani. A plethora of packages, platforms and information sources have flooded the Internet to help locked-down children learn from home and advise parents on how to help them. There is no going back on this trend. With screens increasingly…
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Ioe London Blog | Expert opinion from the UK's leading centre for education research
5y ago
James Thomas, Alison O’Mara-Eves, Dylan Kneale and Rebecca Rees. The closure of schools has been a recommended intervention in response to pandemics because of its potential for reducing the transmission of infection among children, school staff, and those they contact. Previous evidence has shown…
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Ioe London Blog | Expert opinion from the UK's leading centre for education research
5y ago
Yuwei Xu and Clare Brooks. With the outbreak of COVID-19 globally, school closures and online education have become shared experiences for children, teachers, and parents around the world. As China emerges from lockdown, schools are preparing for re-opening. National guidelines, issued by…
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Ioe London Blog | Expert opinion from the UK's leading centre for education research
5y ago
Bernie Munoz, Melanie Ehren and Jo Hutchinson. The government is making some assumptions about so-called ‘stuck’ or ‘intractable’ schools that need to be closely examined. One of these assumptions is that placing a small group of failing schools in special…
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Ioe London Blog | Expert opinion from the UK's leading centre for education research
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Jennie Golding. The move to ‘home schooling’ has, quite rightly, triggered a storm of commentaries about how the gap between the disadvantaged and the middle class will widen. Last week the House of Commons Education Select Committee conducted a session…
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