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The Diploma in Teaching (DiT) replaced the Diploma in Education and Training (DET) from 01 September 2024. It’s offered by several awarding organisations (AO) via colleges and training providers at level 5, and by universities and higher education institutions (HEI) and their college partners at levels 5, 6 and 7.
Read MoreIn our recent book, The Handbook of Social Justice in Psychological Therapies, we bring together authors from across counselling, clinical and educational psychology, counselling and psychotherapy, people with lived experience of the topics, and participatory action researchers. We try to rise to current professional and societal challenges and provide contributions on both theoretical understandings and how we might enact our social justice values both inside and outside of the therapy room.
Read MoreQuality improvement (QI) has been the core of much of Dr. Maria Kordowicz and Niroshan Siriwardena’s work both as practitioners and researchers. They wanted to write an accessible guide for students and practitioners which would not only convey the theoretical underpinnings of QI, but also consider the applied elements of what it takes to be an ‘improver’.
Read MoreIn honour of Pride Month, we spoke to Jo Brassington and Dr Adam Brett, the authors of the newly published Pride and Progress: Making Schools LGBT+ Inclusive Spaces.
Read MoreWe need to talk about how to be original. I’II get onto why originality matters in the age of A.I. essays in a moment but let’s start with something a little more old school.
Read MoreClearly culture does not influence everything in international business. There are plenty of practices that are at least somewhat universal, but when culture matters it really matters.
Read MoreIf it were up to us everyday would be marked as a teacher appreciation day. Amongst the most important jobs in the world, that of a teacher can not be acknowledged enough. Teachers and schools play a significant role in not just impacting individual lives but society at large. In this short Q&A Orelene Badu, the author of How To Build Your Antiracist Classroom highlights just how much power teachers have within their own classrooms to further social justice and change.
Read MoreUniversity can be a challenging and demanding time, and you face a range of stressors such as academic pressures, financial concerns, social challenges, and life and study difficulties.
Read MoreStress is often viewed as something unhealthy, dangerous, and “must be avoided” because of the heavy toll it has been found to play on individuals’ lives. Still, stress can also be adaptive for individuals because it has the capacity to foster learning and growth.
Read More“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” This opening sentence of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina is not just intriguing, but speaks to the many conditions and experiences that can influence how we live our lives. It likewise reflects the findings of research that focuses on factors that affect vulnerability or resilience to the effects of stressful experiences and the consequences on physical and mental health.
Read MoreDyslexia is a learning difference with a combination of strengths and weaknesses that affects around 15-20% of the population. It is mostly genetic in origin and therefore with you from cradle to grave. 43% of dyslexic students are diagnosed when they reach university as they adjust to the increased academic workload. Many adults in the workplace are undiagnosed.
Read MoreWhen I was asked to share from my classroom in Sam Jones's Great FE Teaching I leapt at the chance. Not because I believed I had a special way to teach but that this book could serve as a way for teachers to observe others practice without the need to arrange cover or time.
Read MoreIn August 2022, the SAGE Books Editorial team released a Statement of intent setting out our ambitions to embed diversity, inclusivity and accessibility in all our books, as well as support movements to decolonise teaching and learning through our publishing.
Read MoreAt a time of accelerating social, political and environmental crises, there is an urgent need for research methods that support social transformation. Over the last fifty years or so, participatory research has emerged as a challenge to traditional research paradigms. It has now come of age as a robust alternative for understanding, analysing and taking action for social change.
Read MoreWork, that is employed and paid work, and private life are often spoken of as separate worlds. Yet, the notional separation of the public and the private clearly varies immensely by class, occupation, gender, ethnicity and racialisation. Women have always worked in the home, mainly unpaid, and for many this was and still is their main workplace.
Read MoreChildren have always played – in every society and culture, at every point during history. Whilst there have been flurries of debate about whether their time would be better spent working (be that up a chimney, or behind a desk at school), no aspect of play has proved quite so contentious as digital play.
Read MoreWhat happens at work, and in workplaces, clearly has a lot to do with different jobs, occupations and class more generally, but workplaces are much more than that. Workplaces are also places of age, where age is “done”, is constructed and reconstructed, is experienced, celebrated and denied. At work, people are routinely assessed by age, sometimes in terms of being a certain number of years, more often through some form of cultural assessment of occupational or professional age – is this a young worker?
Read MoreThere’s a well-known Yiddish saying ‘Mann tracht und Gott lacht’ meaning Man plans and God laughs. It isn’t unusual for people to live under the illusion (or delusion) that life will be good or get better, and this sense of optimism (or is it entitlement or perhaps hope?) may favor the propensity to plan for a future blessed by comfort, happiness, close friends and family, and good health.
Read MoreRecently, I wrote an article for Forbes magazine on why we need better design thinking. The short answer to this question is that designers, traditionally, were not paying much attention to research as a way to inform their work. As a result, the products and the services that they were designing were often self-serving and egocentric.
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