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15 April 2026

Author: Bansi Kara

Colouring in the curriculum

It would be tremendously enriching for students to add more non-white, non-male perspectives to the curriculum, insists Bansi Kara At the inaugural BAMEed conference, I spoke to a room full of teaching and non-teaching professionals about a few of the arguments used to justify a white, male curriculum. I argued the national curriculum is inherently […]

Managing Teacher Workload, edited by Nansi Ellis

Not a week goes by without someone mentioning the ever-increasing volume of work that teachers have to endure. So, you cannot help but be acutely aware of the irony of adding to your own workload by agreeing to review a book on workload. So imagine my delight when a remarkably slim book landed on my […]

The Politics of Compulsive Education: Racism and Learner-Citizenship

Karl Kitching may not be a name you are familiar with. He is a lecturer in the school of education at University College, Cork, whose research interests include educational inequality and Foucauldian discourse. It is in the context of these interests that he presents The Politics of Compulsive Education: Racism and Learner-Citizenship. Kitching’s argument over […]