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New publications

A new book from the KOSS network where ROSE researchers collaborate with colleagues at IOE, UCL, and the University of Helsinki on teachers' work with powerful knowledge in the classroom. The discussion is framed from the perspective of teachers as agents of recontextualisation. The book is titled Bringing Powerful Knowledge into Classrooms: Subject Teachers as Agents of Recontextualisation. ROSE researcher Marie Nilsberth is one of the editors, and alongside her, Christina Olin-Scheller and Martin Stolare also contribute to the book. The book is open access, so just click the link to download it! 

Two previously published KOSS books, in which ROSE researchers are editors, are now open access. These two books discuss powerful knowledge in educational contexts across different countries, as well as how it can manifest in various subjects. Click on the links to download the books! International Perspectives on Knowledge and Curriculum: Epistemic Quality across School Subjects and International Perspectives on Knowledge and Quality: Implications for Innovation in Teacher Education Policy and Practice.

Upcoming seminars

8 October, 14:00-16:00 (Room 3D415), Michael Corbett, Professor Emeritus at Acadia University, Canada: Rural Literacies: Rural Lifeways as Educational Assets and a Foundation for Learning.

Corbett is one of the leading researchers in the field of rural literacies and is among the authors of books such as Learning to Leave: The Irony of Schooling in a Coastal Community (2007), Rural Teacher Education: Connecting Land and People (2020), and Rethinking Rural Literacies. Transnational Perspectives (2013). The seminar is organised in collaboration with IPS.

15 October, start of the Graduate School 'Best Practice? – A Doctoral School on Subject Didactic Models in Primary Teacher Education', BEPPE.

22 October, 10:00-12:00 (Room 3A340), Garth Stahl, Associate Professor, University of Queensland, Australia: Exploring gender and class inequalities in STEM education.

Stahl is an educational sociologist with a particular interest in issues concerning class and masculinity. He has published books including Ethnography of a Neoliberal School: Building Cultures of Success (2018), Self-Made Men: Widening Participation, Selfhood and First-in-Family Males (2022), and Boyhood in the Digital Age (2025). The seminar is organised in collaboration with IPS.

29 October, 13.00-15 (Room 3B 513), David Mitchell, Associate Professor, UCL, Institute of Education The ‘Powerful Knowledge’ turn: where are we now and what next?