We are
@ucl
's world leaders for research and teaching in education, culture, psychology and social science. We create lasting and evolving change.
#WeAreIOE
Analysing
@SB19Official
,
@TupasRuanni
of
@UCLAppliedLing
writes that P-Pop could bring back appreciation for the Philippine languages too long marginalised as dialects by internal colonisation.
"The link between reading for pleasure and better vocabularies suggests that if young people are encouraged to discover a love for books, it could alter the course of their lives..."
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We were founded on this day in 1902... Happy Birthday to us! 🎂🥳
Professor John Adams delivered the inaugural lecture, titled 'The Training of Teachers', placing particular importance on the need to understand the contents of children's minds and the way they worked.
#WeAreIOE
"I am committed to supporting greater in-depth research in this vital area and I’m delighted to be meeting all those behind the study at this early stage."
@KensingtonRoyal
hears from
@CLScohorts
@UCLBrainScience
leading the ‘Children of the 2020s’ study.
Focusing on education in feminism and women’s lives, the
#Ed4WomensLib
conference - organised by UCL's special interest group
@UCLwomenslib
and
@Womans_Place_UK
- is coming to IOE on 4 February.
"I am extremely grateful for the trust you have placed in me in taking on this role... I am very much looking forward to working with all of you to build on what we have achieved and take the IOE and pursuit of our social justice mission from success to success."
#WeAreIOE
We outline our strong concerns about the technicist model for ITE that the Review puts forward, the disregard it shows towards the existing infrastructure for ITE, and the limited evidence base for its proposals.
Our full response:
So The
#Bodyguard
finale took us on a walk from The City to Bloomsbury right outside the IOE - did you recognise us?
We snapped a cheeky behind the scenes snap when they came to film early this year.
Professors
@GoodmanAlissa
and
@PascoFearon
discussed how the 'Children of the 2020s' study aims to improve life chances and showed the Duchess of Cambridge archive material of historic research dating back to the 1940s into early childhood.
Learn more:
"I am committed to supporting greater in-depth research in this vital area and I’m delighted to be meeting all those behind the study at this early stage."
@KensingtonRoyal
hears from
@CLScohorts
@UCLBrainScience
leading the ‘Children of the 2020s’ study.
Why does the literature around curriculum theory focus on men, when there are many prominent female theorists?
@drleatongray
and David Scott explores women’s involvement in curriculum theory.
Read more on the
#IOEBlog
.
Study shows for the first time that "poverty as well as poverty-related stressors" causes wear and tear on the brain and the body in children as young as 9 years old.
We're sad to hear of Baroness Mary Warnock's passing, whose pivotal work on children's special educational needs and disabilities resonated with many here.
On the Warnock Report's 40th anniversary, she kindly spent time to reflect upon SEND developments since with
@RobWebster_
.
Teacher training at
@UCL
has been awarded 'Outstanding' across all four phases - early years, primary, secondary and further education phases.
Newly qualified teachers leave "exceptionally well prepared to both enjoy and sustain a career in teaching", says
@Ofstednews
’s report.
We are IOE,
@UCL
's Faculty of Education and Society.
We are celebrating 120 years of embracing distinction and making a positive impact around the world - join us:
#IOE120
.
@ucl
: the best UK university for the subject area of Education, according to The
@Guardian
University Guide 2022, which lists our Education Studies BA as number 1 in the Education subject table.
IOE is where research transforms lives and society.
The impacts of
@UCL
research on the wider world have been recognised in the Research Excellence Framework 2021.
#UCLResearch
#REFResults
UCL
@IOE_London
has been selected to lead a new programme of language excellence, funded by
@educationgovuk
, expanding high quality language education for 1,000s of students across England.
#WeAreIOE
Zahra Bei, a teacher and Social Justice & Education MA graduate, tells of the damage of zero-tolerance behaviour policies which sparked her racial-justice focused campaign
@NExclusions
for
#NoMoreExclusions
from schools.
@UCLAlumni
“To be number one again [for the fifth year running] is an outstanding achievement and I would like to thank and congratulate colleagues, students and stakeholders for their part in our collective success.”
—
@BeckyFrancis7
#QSWUR
Prospective teachers "need to be given the freedoms and responsibilities that enable the job to be done well, and experienced as meaningful work" – so the current framework for teacher education needs reform, writes John Yandell (
@jy58
).
Read on
#IOEBlog
:
Today, 6 October 2022, we celebrate our 120th anniversary!
@UCL
President & Provost Dr Michael Spence reflects on IOE's rich history transforming lives, education and society.
#IOE120
#WeAreIOE
Read more:
"Our research suggests that the government would be better off directing their money towards areas of existing need, rather than expanding grammar schools."
📰 More:
We're pleased to announce Dr Nicola Walshe
@GeoWalshe
will join us this summer as Head of our Department of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment.
#WeAreIOE
The
@TopUnis
#QSWUR
rankings are based on academic reputation, employer reputation and research citations. So we're thrilled to retain world number 1 for Education as a subject.
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#weareioe
Play is strongly connected to children’s wellbeing. Watch out for some exciting outputs from this research led by
@JohnPP
, including a virtual
@MuseumChildhood
exhibition, toolkit with
@GreatOrmondSt
play team, sound archive
@britishlibrary
!
Many of the standard ideas about language, education, and bilingualism are rooted in colonialism, says
@professorliwei1
in article rejecting abyssal thinking.
Some positive news: we congratulate Professor Margaret O'Brien
@IOE_TCRU
, who has been made a Fellow of the
@AcadSocSciences
for her outstanding contribution to social science research and its application to policy and society.
#SocSciMatters
Philippine languages – there are as many as 182 – are often wrongly downgraded as dialects due to historically colonial education which favoured English, says
@TupasRuanni
. He comments on how P-pop including Alamat and SB19 are helping change this.
Michael Reiss has been appointed as the next President of
@theASE
.
He said the Association "has never been more needed, given the challenges that teachers, technicians and other science educators face and given the importance of science in today’s world."
What if the whole of Year 7 was characterised as primary-to-secondary transition phase?
"Schools that manage to bridge the gap well set up their students for a lifetime’s successful learning" -
@drleatongray
, Moving Up project.
A new framework that makes research more accessible to practitioners aims to aid the uptake of evidence in education settings and facilitate researcher-educator collaboration.
Led by
@sineadjhar
@ILC_IOE
.
We're so pleased to have such a warm and fantastic turnout for Director Emeritus Geoff Whitty this evening, celebrating his 50 years with the IOE.
#IOELondon