New review in Educational Review: balancing managerialism with professionalism amounts to subtle apologism masking managerialism’s structural power as a neoliberal project. Free access: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/CRTGG... #Managerialism #EducationPolicy #EducationalLeadership #Professionalism

Don't miss out on 40+ Free to Access Sociology Journal Articles! Available until January 2026 👉 spr.ly/633287ht2y

How can critical realism be put to practical use? Free online book discussion @crnetwork.bsky.social 5th Feb as @jpelonga.bsky.social and I talk about a CR approach to educational leadership. Responses from @helengunter.bsky.social & Lakshman Wimalasena Register www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...

📘 Click below for #FreeAccess to Anne Holdren's #InfluentialReader #BookReview of "Access is capture: how edtech reproduces racial inequality" by Roderic N. Crooks 👇 doi.org/10.1080/0013... @ucpress.bsky.social

Read for free ahead of the Article of the Year seminar! 📖 ‘Thin places of resistance: a caring response to refugees in rural American schools’ by Kerry Ann McKeon, Betty Merchant, Christopher Flanagan-Gonzales & Saleha Sultan www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/educa...

New book on Margaret Archer’s sociological theory delivered this morning, just in time for Christmas!

I never get tired of talking about “The Myth of Disenchantment.” If you too are up for more, I had a great convo with Khalid Khatri on his Incisive Thoughts podcast. Give it a listen! : youtu.be/7gKeqOmL4bo

💬 'a theoretically ambitious reconceptualisation of dialogic education' Read more from Nika Maglaperidze's #BookReview of 'Rethinking educational theory: education as expanding dialogue' by Rupert Wegerif 👇 doi.org/10.1080/0013... @musicandteach.bsky.social @rupertwegerif.bsky.social

New #RuralEd paper: “Coming to uni was isolating, a massive culture shock”: the struggle of working-class rural youth for recognition and belonging at a metropolitan university, by H. Cuervo & N. Weerasuriya. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📘 The latest issue of Educational Review explores parental engagement, curriculum innovation, PE in alternative schools, wellbeing policy gaps, teacher identity, academic integrity, and more—across global contexts! 🔗 Read the issue: www.tandfonline.com/toc/cedr20/7... #EducationResearch

📚 'The “problem” of teacher quality: exploring challenges and opportunities in developing teacher quality during the Covid-19 global pandemic in England' - an article in the @ucl.ac.uk UN #SDG4 Collection on #ScienceOpen: 🖇️ #ILD2025 #TeacherEducation #TeacherQuality #EducationPolicy

Some working-class student teachers seem to act as ‘chameleons’ when training, occupying different social class-spaces and keeping a foot in all camps www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... Working-class student teacher in Wales? Tell your story - [email protected].

New paper! Coproducing a school-based mental health literacy programme: exploring the views and experiences of primary school children in North-West England. 1/ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

@jpelonga.bsky.social and I have written a blog about our newly published book 'Educational Leadership and Critical Realism' with thanks to @crnetwork.bsky.social and @tandfresearch.bsky.social for their support #Critical #Realism #Leadership #Education

My book is officially available in hardback from today. Just in time for Christmas! A bit expensive at the moment so have your library treat you to a copy.... 🎁

🗣️ “We have no idea what she’s saying, but we’re really proud she’s saying it.” This study by Ashleigh Regan & Sara Ganassin explores why non-Welsh speaking parents choose Welsh-medium education—and the hopes, challenges, and pride that come with it. 📖 Read #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1080/0013...

The marketisation of HE has destroyed the sense of being part of a 'community of scholars', replacing it with 'students as paying customers'.

Wishing all my friends in the United States a happy National Cat Day. We don't have a National Cat Day in the UK, just a National Cat. Me. (Pic @pjrfoto.bsky.social)

The greatest trauma a child can experience. Ronald Fairbairn.

Our book in the @routledgebooks.bsky.social series in @crnetwork.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social More details at www.routledge.com/Educational-... including access to the opening chapter. Please tell your librarian. #Critical #Realism #Leadership #Education

#Education and #wellbeing as silos: Siân Ephgrave & Lizzi O. Milligan call for integrated and relational approaches to learning and wellness in schools. Read #OpenAccess 👇 doi.org/10.1080/0013... @lizziom.bsky.social

A reminder that you have one month left to submit your abstract for our new handbook on research paradigms. Share your experience and help other researchers navigate the complexity of how philosophy shapes research practice. Read more below. #AcademicSky #ScienceSky

In a powerful new article, Pandora Pound of @safermedicines.org uses sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s ideas on power and legitimacy to ask why animal experimentation still dominates academia—despite scientific advances and increasing external pressure for change. 🧵 #sociology #scipol #philsci 🧪

Dr Pratik Mishra is raising awareness about labourers under extreme heat in India. His research combines ethnography, temperature sensors, and intervention trials in garment factories, to push for policies that protect vulnerable workers from heat stress. Read more: www.sussex.ac.uk/schools/glob...

Thrilled that my Epistemic Alchemy Podcast interview on Critical Realism & the Replication Crisis in Psychology has hit 200 listens! Thanks to everyone who tuned in and shared it 🙏 Listen here 👉 www.podbean.com/ew/pb-wpmsx-... #CriticalRealism #ReplicationCrisis #PhilosophyOfScience #Replication

The co-deputy leaders have so much to say too: Rachel Millward from 9:45, Mothin Ali from 25:35 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw1w...

How the founder of German psychology scoffed & pathologized unorthodox science out of intellectual discourse – and tried to alter the historical record in due course. Plug for my recent article in the @spr1882.bsky.social encyclopedia. www.forbiddenhistories.com/2025/10/wundt

🚨📣 FINAL BOOK! 📕 If you'd like to review this book, email us! ✉️ Please include your affiliation, level of study & evidence of relevant expertise: [email protected] #EduChat #BookReview @beranews.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social @aeraedresearch.bsky.social

“After all research on psychotherapy is accounted for, psychotherapy still resolves itself into a relationship best subsumed by the word love” - Arthur Burton (1967) #psychotherapy #humanisticpsychology

V.S. Öğütle (2013) "Reconsidering Real-Actual-Empirical Stratification: Can Bourdieu's Habitus be Introduced into a Critical Realist Ontology?", Journal of Critical Realism, 12(4): 479-506. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

We are actively seeking theoretically challenging work on education. Please give our open-access editorial a read for details on our journal's scope, and consider submitting your work🧵 doi.org/10.1177/0034...

📙 New #BookReview by Qian Zhu & Shuangshuang Li: "Understanding teacher leadership in educational change: an international perspective" edited by Peng Liu & Lei Mee Thien 🏫 Read here 👇 doi.org/10.1080/0013...

Big in Japan? Bigger than I thought. A neat blog post about critical realism by Hazuki Kajiwara, a researcher at Tokyo's Rikkyo University #CriticalRealism #JapanHealthcare #JapanesePhilosophy

My monograph is finally published online today. I am exhausted just thinking about it. Thanks to my former PhD supervisor Howard and to @emeraldpublishing.bsky.social who got me over the line (eventually). In the context of a teacher supply crisis, I ask: what makes a good teacher and who decides?

Here is our new piece in Lancet Planetary Health on the #WellbeingEconomy and public health, thanks to @gerrymccartney1.bsky.social for leading this :-)

An inventory of Margaret Archer’s publications from her 1967 PhD thesis to her 2024 posthumous book ‘Morphogenesis answers its critics’ has been compiled by the Centre for Social Ontology, which she founded in 2011. This blog explains more with suitable CR epistemic humility

📚 Call for book reviewers! 📣 If you'd like to review one of these titles for Educational Review, please email: ✉️ [email protected] Include your book choice, your affiliation, level of study & evidence of relevant expertise/experience 😃

The one Downing Street resident you can always count on (Photo @imageplotter.bsky.social)

Excited to be starting our second phase researching with children and their NDEs in paediatric intensive care. Children can report a soothing darkness that may be similar with the midnight sun of consciousness found in mystical writings. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The bodily roots of conscious experiences in early life “We present evidence speaking in favour of fairly sophisticated forms of early sensorimotor integration of bodily signals and self-generated actions already being established in utero.” academic.oup.com/nc/article/2... #philsky #philsci

The latest addition to the FH multimedia universe: The podcast, where contents are discussed in an entertaining dialogue format. Each episode can be streamed & downloaded in English & German. Here is the introduction (in English): forbiddenhistories.podbean.com/e/introducti... Enjoy!

The authors contend that critical realism enables social work to achieve its highest potential, harmonizing with the field's core values to catalyze profound transformation and fulfill its most ambitious ideals.

“Even the smallest contribution made towards a clearer understanding of one’s own position or that of one’s opponent – is a great success. A discussion which you win but which fails to help you to change or to clarify your mind at least a little should be regarded as a sheer loss” (Popper, 1994).

Pleased to report that my manuscript for ‘The Sociological Theory of Margaret Archer: A Preliminary Appraisal’ has now been approved for publication.

Very pleased that my paper 'Segmenting Ontology' is out in Synthese doi.org/10.1007/s112... On the relationship between quantum, material and social reality.

Interested in writing an article or review for #NewAssociations #psychoanalytic magazine, published by the British Psychoanalytic Council? Listen to this new podcast with Emmanuelle Smith (Co-Editor), Niamh Downes (Managing Editor) & me (Co-Editor) re how to pitch s301.podbean.com/pb/653013c43...

In this article, I clarify misunderstandings of #CriticalRealism and defend its relevance to psychology’s #ReplicationCrisis. By challenging methodologism and proposing exploratory stratified contextualism, I offer a more ontologically grounded approach to #psychology. doi.org/10.1177/0959...

Our book with prof. Stephen Ball @ioe.bsky.social is an invitation to think education differently. Enjoy!

Did you have 'strange' experiences as a child? Ever wondered what children's experiences can tell us about who we are? @bernardokastrup.bsky.social @essentia foundation www.collectiveinkbooks.com/essentia-boo...