Shirley, Ian

This resource is a 2007 research report, undertaken by researchers from the University of Sussex, the University of Cambridge, and the London Institute of Education. The report was commissioned by the then DfES to investigate the approaches to personalised learning used by schools in England. The resource consists of an analysis of the current literature, an introduction to the methodological...

This resource is a transcript of a paper, presented at the European Conference on Educational Research 2001. It will be of interest to teachers, Initial Teacher Education (ITE) students, and ITE tutors who are concerned for the pupil’s voice in education, and students who are interested in the impact of a market economy on education.

This Teachers TV programme looks at the ways in which one headteacher transformed her school. In the process it became top of the 2005 value-added SATs League Tables.

The report summarises two prototypes developed in partnership with Futurelab: Virtual Puppeteers with squidsoup (a digital arts company) and MediaStage with Immersive Education (an educational software company). The two prototypes were designed specifically to support collaborative approaches to creative story-telling and to explore the potential of rich multimodal (sound, image, movement,...

In this Topic (now PRE-Online) article, Caroline Sharp of the NFER considers evidence from research and theory as it applies to developing young children’s creativity. She explains how creativity is defined, and identifies the implications for staff working in early childhood settings. She also identifies some common myths about developing young children’s creativity.