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The Mindful learning podcast: Five Things You Should Know About GCSE English, Oracy and the Future of Education

In the latest episode of the Mindful Learning Podcast, I spoke with English teacher and researcher Sabina Miah about GCSE English, oracy, workload, creativity, and what is happening inside English classrooms today. Sabina trained on the PGCE English programme at Goldsmiths and is now researching the impact of GCSE English Language reforms on teachers’ pedagogy and classroom practice. Our…

The Mindful learning podcast: Five Things You Should Know About GCSE English, Oracy and the Future of Education

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Seven Things I Learned from the Creative Writing Together Kickoff Meeting at York St John University

Left to right: Samia Rahman, Tom Dobson, Dan Ingram-Brown, Paige Davis, Sam Clarke, Jane Collins, Francis Gilbert This week in May 2026, the AHRC-funded Creative Writing Together project officially began. It felt genuinely exciting to travel to York St John University with our newly appointed Research Assistant, Samia Rahman, for our first major kickoff meeting with the wider project team. York…

Seven Things I Learned from the Creative Writing Together Kickoff Meeting at York St John University

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How Can We Help Young People Improve Their Local Environments? How Can They Become Agents of Change? (Book chapter in Ecologies of Practice and Learning)

This post introduces Ecologies in Practice and Learning: Arts Interventions in the Earth Crisis, an edited collection that brings together arts educators, practice researchers, curators and artists to explore ecological approaches to learning in a time of accelerating environmental crisis. The book is concerned with how learning happens in, with and through ecological crisis. Rather than…

How Can We Help Young People Improve Their Local Environments? How Can They Become Agents of Change? (Book chapter in Ecologies of Practice and Learning)

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Forgive the comic strip, it’s there to capture the energy and fun of a brilliant creative writing workshop at Goldsmiths. Our students taught a group of Danish teenagers to campus with their teacher Margit. a Danish English teacher. The afternoon was full of play, laughter and serious thinking!

Five Ways to Teach Creative Writing to Teenagers 

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Connected Learning in the Classroom

Connected Learning in the Classroom

Connected Learning is

socially embedded, interest-driven, and oriented toward educational, economic, or political opportunity. Connected learning is realized when a young person is able to pursue a personal interest or passion with the support of friends and caring adults, and is in turn able to link this learning and interest to academic achievement, career success or civic engagement. (Ito et…

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