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Rehabilitating Memory in Education (opens the original)
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Welcome to my 150th post! The status of memory in education seems an appropriate topic, and the title of this post mirrors that of my talk at a recent seminar on memory in education hosted by my department here in Scotland.I will therefore focus today on an overview of the main ideas I shared at the event.Early viewsI began by discussing some of the early origins of how researchers see memory today.There is much overlap between the views of memory developed by early philosophers and how we now v
Promise and Pitfalls of Practitioner 'Action' Research, Part 3 (opens the original)
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Hello! And welcome back to a series of posts on these updates that focus on action research. You can find parts 1 and 2 here and here.This is the third and final part, and having discussed how action research can go wrong, this part will have a more positive focus, considering its benefits and providing some suggested guidelines.The story so farBy action research, I mean research that reflects on and attempts to inform one’s own practice. It is carri
Memory in Education – A Seminar (opens the original)
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Hi! I know that in many countries, lecturers, teachers and other educators are starting the term/semester soon. If that’s you, I hope it goes well.I will be taking time out from our own Welcome and Development Week (a.k.a. freshers’ week) here at the University of Strathclyde to host a seminar on Sept 18th on the topic of memory and education, as I briefly mentioned in an update before the summer.Memory and educationAs discussed in my post on semantic and episodic memory recentl
Promise and Pitfalls of Practitioner 'Action' Research, Part 2 (opens the original)
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Way back in late 2025 I wrote a post on practitioner action research, and mentioned that I would later dive further into the issue (see update #131, “Promise and Pitfalls of Practitioner Action Research’).It’s taken me a while, but I’m finally back with part 2 of that topic! I think that sharing this in the late summer is actually a pretty good time, given that many projects will be undertaken across the coming academic year. Perhaps you already have research in mind – if so, I hope this provide
Episodic and Semantic Memory (opens the original)
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Hello! As I briefly mentioned last time, today’s update will focus on the concepts of episodic and semantic memory. These are widely-discussed concepts in psychology, but I rarely see them covered in education courses or CPD.Memory in educationA starting point is the definition of memory as a concept. If you ever find yourself trying to defend the relevance of memory to education, it’s worth noting the breadth of its definition as seen by mainstream psychology and cognitive science. By this view
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