Education, Equality & Development: historical contexts & contemporary practice
Research Interests and Projects
Below is a list of research interests within the EED group. All the ongoing research at the Faculty can be found on the research projects page.
Economic research
- Education and development
- International aid and financing of education
- Pro-poor development and Education for All
- Educational planning and policy
Historical research
Philosophical Research
- Censorship and education
- Hermeneutics and education
- Philosophy of science
- Progressivism and Romanticism
- Teacher professionalism
- Political Theory and Education
- Post-structuralism and education
- Performativity
- Cavellian approaches to education
- Education and values
- Education and intensity
- Social justice and education
Psycho-social research
- Care in education
- Counselling and emotional well-being
- Mental health and schools
- Sexuality and HIV/Aids education
Inclusive and Special Education
- Curriculum development and inclusive pedagogy
- Achievement and inclusion
- Participatory school cultures and participatory research
- Developing inclusion through practitioner research
- Person-centred approaches and advocacy
- Disability and poverty
- Inclusive and special education in developing economies
Sociological research
- Gender, citizenship and social change
- Morality and citizenship education
- Pupil Voice, Consultation and the Social Conditions of Learning
- Asylum seeker and refugee education
- Social class, ethnic and gender identities
- Sociology of knowledge and the curriculum
- Working class education
- Widening participation in higher education
- Youth Culture(s) and Youth Studies
- Social and Cultural Theory and Education