2023-03-15 A Faculty teacher-educator has been working with schools in Cambridgeshire on a new approach to fostering students’ interest in STEM subjects that focuses on getting them to self-identify as scientists. Read the full story |
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2023-03-14 Who children play with in their earliest years at school could be more important for their early communication than their fundamental social skills new evidence shows.Read the full story |
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2023-03-09 A Cambridgeshire school is creating its own policy on inclusive education after research highlighted multiple representation gaps in the curriculum and the critical role of teachers in addressing them. Read the full story |
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2023-02-23 The renowned sociologist Jason Arday is to become a professor at the University of Cambridge: the latest chapter in a remarkable academic career which began after he overcame illiteracy in his late teens.Read the full story |
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2023-02-16 A pilot study by Faculty researchers working with Empathy Week suggests that just one week of 30-minute empathy lessons measurably improves students’ emotional awareness.Read the full story |
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2024-04-17 The University of Cambridge is launching a short course for teachers to help them integrate museum objects and collections into their practice through “object-based learning”.Read the full story |
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2023-01-27 A newly-published analysis shows how Jane Austen's works and heroes such as Mr Darcy are experiencing yet another rebirth as the 'meme idols' of Gen Z.Read the full story |
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2023-01-17 More effort than ever is being put into building awareness of science and the public and ethical challenges it raises but many people still regard scientists and their work with suspicion. Scientists themselves meanwhile often address these concerns late in the research process – and sometimes not at all. The Faculty of Education’s newest research centre is dedicated to addressing both problems from new and inventive angles. It all starts with learning to say ‘Hello’.Read the full story. |
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2023-01-05 Hilda a series of graphic novels about an 11-year-old girl in a magical realist world has acquired an international fanbase and critical acclaim. As a new study explains there is more to its appeal than sheer escapism.Read the full story |
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2022-12-19 Researchers have trialled a new approach to testing students’ ‘computational thinking’ in terms which go far beyond the programming skills learned in computing lessons.Read the full story. |
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