Category: Learning
An innovative approach to improving teaching: Lessons from India
Teaching children to learn to read, write and do basic mathematics are vital building blocks learnt in the early years. These basic skills are essential to continued learning, staying in school and thriving.
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International Mother Language Day 2026
International Mother Language Day is celebrated on 21 February to underscore the role of languages in promoting inclusion and achieving the SDGs.
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Streaming too soon: Rethinking subject pathways in secondary education in Nigeria
In the final year of junior secondary school, school told her it was time to choose a stream: science, arts or commerce. Drawn to mathematics and the practical, experimental side of science, but also loving writing and literature. “That’s not how it works.” By the next term, she was placed…
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Emancipatory teaching in social studies: Lessons from Paulo Freire
Social studies, as a field of education, carries the responsibility of preparing young learners to understand their societies and to participate meaningfully as active citizens. However, in many classrooms, social studies is limited to the memorisation of facts, dates and state-approved narratives that give preference to obedience to rote learning…
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Learning together to prevent violence in education: Reflections from UKFIET 2025 conference
My aim for attending the conference was to share findings and lessons from a recently concluded study on school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV) from the perspectives of children with disabilities in Sierra Leone. My second objective was to learn from what other researchers and practitioners were doing to understand violence in…
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Teaching Social Studies in an International Baccalaureate (IB) School in Pakistan
This blog presents a reflective analysis based on my observation of a Social Studies class in an International Baccalaureate (IB) school in Pakistan. The aim of this observation was to understand how Social Studies is taught, how students engage with concepts such as society, culture, identity, citizenship and civic responsibility,…
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Relational ecologies of knowledge and practice
Struggles for cognitive justice continue to shape everyday practice in education and research. A workshop envisioned new, reparative ways of knowing and being together that prioritize community knowledges and contextual epistemologies, equitable resource distribution, and ethical funding and publication pipelines.
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Removing the Extra from Extracurricular: Reimagining Activities as Core Catalysts for Classroom Connection
Extracurricular activities (ECAs) have long been seen as add-ons to schooling. But what if these activities are actually the key to forging deeper peer connections, boosting student participation, and creating classrooms where every voice is heard and valued?
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Nomophobia and implications for education: The unspoken fear of being disconnected from mobile phones
With the increasing use of mobile phones and the growing amount of time spent on scrolling through social media posts, most of us remain unaware of its consequences for our physical, mental and emotional wellbeing. Educators are experiencing a novel anxiety among students, first reported in UK in 2008 known…
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Why children’s literature belongs in conversations on education and inclusion
Access to rich and engaging literature at home is a severe gap for Global South populations, with studies suggesting that access to children’s literature in India is limited to 1 book available for 5 children in urban areas, and 1 book available for every 11 children in rural areas. In…
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How colonialism shaped modern education systems across India, Pakistan and Singapore
Colonialism did not simply introduce schools to South Asia; it re-engineered knowledge systems, reorganised access to education and embedded epistemic hierarchies that continue to shape modern schooling across India, Pakistan and Singapore.
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Learning together: How a simple idea is transforming classrooms in India and Malawi
When I first stepped into the classroom that morning, the noise caught me by surprise. Dozens of children were talking at once — not in chaos, but in conversation. Groups of three huddled over shared notebooks, whispering, debating, laughing, and scribbling answers on the blackboard.
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