“You can’t sit there”: How students claim and police school space through sitting

A guest post by Dr Siobhan Dytham on the rules and rituals that students develop about space and sitting in school

In the Hills, on the Trail of a Radical Priest and Critical Pedagogy

Moving north from Florence you climb up and up, past Fiesole to a ridge formed by Mounts Calavana and Giovi … More

A list of organisations running architecture schools for children.

Lina Iordanaki is from Piraeus in Greece. Her first degree was in Primary Education and her master’s degree in Literature … More

Anne Prendergast has spent 30 years in media and publishing and is currently media director at Strattons: a bespoke advertising … More

Shane Cryer manages the education sector in the UK and Ireland for Swedish acoustic experts, Ecophon. After a career in … More

Bridget Murray attended primary schools in the late 1970s in Middlesborough, Hertfordshire and Basingstoke, Hampshire (UK) where she also went … More

Hedwig Heinsman is an architect who grew up in the Dutch Flevopolder and now lives and works in Amsterdam. … More

Sue Steggles was a pupil at John Scurr primary school, Bethnal Green in the East End of London in the … More

Pamela Murphy read Geography at the University of Cambridge before working as a University administrator and then training as a … More

Suvani Dave has attended independent primary and secondary schools in Ashford, Windsor and Hounslow. She is currently a student in … More

When I asked Catherine Burke what she would wish for if she could change just one thing in all schools, … More

When I was considering whether to include my own childhood school as one of a series of research visits to … More

Judith Baines was born in 1933 and is a former primary school teacher and Deputy Head. She pioneered progressive teaching … More

Ruth Benn and Rebecca Skelton teach at Sparrow Farm Infants & Nursery school in Feltham, close to Heathrow Airport. Rebecca … More

Georgina (Georgie) Hughes is the Reading Recovery teacher leader for the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and also trains teachers … More

Rima Tarar was born in Paris in the early 1990s, where she attended nursery and primary school. One year into … More

Nicky Manby first became involved with Pakeman Primary, a North London state primary school, as a reading volunteer after a … More

Dr Ji Yu, studied for her doctorate in the Education Faculty of the University of Cambridge, investigating the impact of … More

Dr Catherine Burke is a well-known historian of childhood, education and school design whose books include School (2008) and The School … More