Dr David Whitebread (1948 – 2021)

Poor children are being ‘failed by the system’ on road to higher education in lower-income countries

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Global evidence for how EdTech can support pupils with disabilities is ‘thinly spread’

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Inside the Upside Down

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Late Romans used educated guesswork to interpret ancient hieroglyphic writing

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On placement in a pandemic: Chloe Brown

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Tyler Denmead’s ‘The Creative Underclass’ on virtual tour

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Video-led feedback programme reduces behaviour problems in children as young as 12 months

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School closures may have wiped out a year of academic progress for pupils in the Global South

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On placement in a pandemic: Lucy Rockliffe

‘Micropopulism’ may be turning education into a battlefield in the culture wars

On placement in a pandemic: Louis Lescure

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Faculty student wins Masters’ dissertation award for third year running

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On placement in a pandemic: Alex Morgan and Abby Wilson

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CLAREC: The new Cambridge Latin American Research in Education Collective

‘Left behind’ adolescent women must be prioritised within sustainable development agenda - report

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Early behavioural problems predict adolescent mental health difficulties, study shows

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Profile: Nathan Cain

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Teaching pupils empathy measurably improves their creative abilities, study finds

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Disabled teachers cannot be sidelined in drive for more inclusive schools

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Dr Nicola Rollock to join Faculty as Distinguished Fellow

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Digital Education Futures Initiative launched at Cambridge

Thought experiment on post-COVID Cambridge suggests that for universities, blending is a new beginning

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Holocaust Memorial Day: The aftermath of the Hans Asperger exposé

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Profile: Fenella Symes

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Faculty will welcome Cambridge Foundation Year students as part of landmark University programme

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In Ethiopia, schools still lack basic means to contain COVID, as pupils return after months of interrupted learning

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Demigods and monsters

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Foreign aid cuts put girls’ education at risk

University outreach programme improves self-belief in prospective students

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Spill-over effects show hidden value of prioritising education of poorest children and marginalised girls

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‘Learning pathways’ show how children who miss out on best start could be guided towards better reading and writing by age 11

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Profile: Nicola Morea

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Road named after Cambridge’s first female Professor of Education

Profile: Madeline Platt

Madeline Platt, 22, is a trainee on our Early Primary PGCE course, and has been passionate about working with children for as long as she can remember. Because she has dyslexia, however, she was told by some that she would never be able to pursue an academically-based career. She told us about the journey that led her to a teacher-training course at Cambridge, what it’s been like joining the Faculty during a pandemic, and why she is starting to think that teachers are basically ‘superhumans’.
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Paul Hirst (1928 - 2020)

The Faculty is saddened to announce the death of Paul Hirst, a former Professor of Education at Cambridge and Head of the Department of Education – one of the institutions that predated the modern Faculty.
Professor Hirst was a widely-respected scholar of the philosophy of education and educational theorist, whose work proved particularly influential as new, degree-level courses for trainee teachers emerged in the 1960s.
He first came to Cambridge as a student after the Second World War. Having worked as a teacher and then as a researcher in Oxford and at King’s College London, he returned in 1971 to take up a post as Head of the Department of Education. At the time, he described himself as joining “a group of people … who are beginning to contribute significantly to work in the philosophy of education.” His lectures, which were renowned for their highly performative style, were a popular course highlight for many students.
Part of his legacy to Education at Cambridge in its present-day form arose from the active role he played in building connections between the University, the Department of Education, the Institute of Education and Homerton College, on the basis that these separate bodies would work more effectively in unison than apart. This was an aim realised during his lifetime, both with the establishment of the Faculty of Education, which drew on the foundations laid by these earlier institutions, and the granting of full college status to Homerton in 2010.
Professor Susan Robertson, Head of Faculty, said: “Everyone at the Faculty will be deeply sorry to hear of the death of Paul, who was not only a prime mover in many areas of educational theory and research, but someone without whose groundwork, the Faculty might not exist today. Our thoughts and deepest sympathies are with his family.”
Free, online course launched to help adults promote children’s social and emotional learning through play in times of stress

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Interactive project to help parents of children with developmental language disorder

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Spiritual development in schools needs to be remodelled and reclaimed from ‘policy creep’

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Children use make-believe aggression and violence to manage bad-tempered peers

Children are more likely to introduce violent themes into their pretend play, such as imaginary fighting or killing, if they are with playmates whom peers consider bad-tempered, new research suggests.
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2020 PEDAL studentships announced as Centre takes on record number of PhD candidates

Four PhD candidates have been awarded PEDAL studentships – which cover the cost of a PhD course in the Centre for Research on Play in Education, Development and Learning (PEDAL) – for 2020.