With a cost-of-living and housing crisis, women are turning to the rental platform to make ends meet, as shown in new research by Dr George Maier and ReMAP member Dr Kate Gilchrist. This post by Kate Gilchrist draws on their recent article for Gender, Work & Organisation. In recent years, much policy and research into AirBnB has critiqued of its
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Harold Rosen: Writings on life, language and learning, 1958-2008, published by UCL IOE Press, is a collection of writings by the influential educator and professor at the Institute of Education. Edited by John Richmond, the book includes over 50 pieces of writing grouped under three headings: the politics of language and English teaching; the role of language in learning; and
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Steve Connolly, an Associate ReMAP member and alumnus of our PhD and Masters’ programmes, is now Senior Lecturer in Education at Anglia Ruskin University, after having worked at the University of Bedfordshire. Steve is also a member of the national executive of the Media Education Association. As well as working with us on past research projects such as the Ministry
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Sara Hawley has just published an article in Learning, Media and Technology, looking at theories of sociomateriality and agency to consider children’s writing practices. In recent sociomaterialist, materialist and post-human theorizing which foregrounds the importance of objects and bodies, ideas of consciousness and intentionality are seen as potentially tainted either with Cartesian mind-body splits or with subjectivities that are too
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Andrew Burn has published a new book with Routledge – Literature, Videogames and Learning. Its central argument is that literature and videogames are cognate cultural forms, and that videogame transformations of literature can help us think in new ways about narrative aesthetics, literary value, and literacy. It draws on research projects with The Globe and the British Library, developing game-authoring
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Read this article by Kate Cowan on how children’s play has responded to the COVID 19 pandemic. it build on research in the Play Observatory project. Cite this article as: Kate Cowan, “Play in the Pandemic,” in PanMeMic, 26/07/2020, https://panmemic.hypotheses.org/?p=683 The COVID-19 pandemic has had an enormous impact on all aspects of life. For children, it’s had major consequences for where, when,
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From the invention of the alphabet to the explosion of the internet, Dominic Wyse takes us on a unique journey into the process of writing. Starting with seven extraordinary examples that serve as a backdrop to the themes explored, it pays particular attention to key developments in the history of language, including Aristotle’s grammar through socio-cultural multimodality, to pragmatist philosophy
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This volume edited by Evangelos Himonides and Vera Milankovic details aspects of music education, pedagogy and its modern development in Serbia, drawing on the work of scholars in Belgrade and elsewhere. The volume fosters new insights and opportunities for intercultural understanding in music education.
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The book launch for Digital Media, Culture and Education: Theorising Third Space Literacies by DARE member John Potter and DARE associate Julian McDougall, took place on 2nd May 2017 at the London Knowledge Lab. The book provides a critical commentary on key issues around learning in the digital age in both formal and informal educational settings. The book presents research
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