This is, perhaps, not a typical Impact editorial – but we are not in typical times. School leaders, teachers and school support staff across the country have de...
We live in exciting times for educational research. Research on learning and cognition is developing rapidly. The findings from this research are increasingly m...
Some years ago now, my primary school dance club chose Sylvia Plath’s poem ‘Mushrooms’ (1962) to perform in a Medway town arts festival at Chatham dockyard. We...
In a changing and uncertain world, most of us can agree that education is one of the single most important things in society today. Aside from imparting knowled...
Once upon a time I was a natural environmental science graduate, and one of my dilemmas at age 21 was whether or not to undertake a funded PhD on peat bog recla...
The breakthrough in my thinking about the curriculum came when I tried to answer the question that I now think every generation should ask: ‘what are schools fo...
It feels like a lifetime since I used to teach secondary science, although when I did, by far my favourite topic to teach was genetics. I loved the challenge of...
What do neuroscience and psychology have to do with education? Both are fundamental to teaching and learning. Education changes the brain: every time you learn ...
Assessment is an important part of any education system. Without assessment, we cannot be sure that students are learning anything, because, as many countries h...
As guest editor, I am delighted to welcome you to the interim issue of Impact. It is the first journal to be published under the umbrella of the Chartered Colle...
