@brianhudson.bsky.social
Professor of Education; Emeritus Prof, University of Sussex and Guest Prof, Karlstad University, Sweden.
It was a wonderful experience to become an Honorary Doctor of Teacher Education at last week’s Academic Ceremony at Karlstad University. It has been a great pleasure to work with such an accomplished group of scholars in the ROSE group over the past 10 years.
@kossnetwork.bsky.social
Really looking forward to hearing from the excellent Stephen Gorard at our FEPG meeting at 7.00pm.
Zoom link sent already. If you are not a member please see the flyer for details on how to attend.
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Really looking forward to hearing from Stephen Gorard next Monday 20th October 7.00-9.00pm on addressing disadvantage in schools.
zoom link will be sent to FEPG members by email.
Please see below for more details
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Delighted to be welcoming Baroness Mary Bousted as guest speaker at our online FEPG meeting Monday 29th September 7.00-9.00pm. Members will receive the zoom link. Anyone else wishing to join see the contact emails below.
@brianhudson.bsky.social @debouthwaite.bsky.social @joedromey.bsky.social
Our second FEPG Review is published online today. It features our newsletter, excellent articles by Daniel Kebede, Graham Donaldson, Ian Davies, and Andy Sprakes, our curriculum report and reviews.
www.fabianeducation.com/fepgreviewan...
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Great to see that this special edition of the Journal of Curriculum Studies, edited by CPA's Professor Zongyi Deng and @arthurjchapman.bsky.social in collaboration with @kossnetwork.bsky.social colleagues is now 'live', open access, and online. www.tandfonline.com/toc/tcus20/5... 1/3
23.07.2025 07:50 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0The edition explores 'Powerful Knowledge', 'epistemic quality', and related concepts to make international comparisons between how subjects are modelled in secondary curricula in Sweden, Finland and England - a project developed and funded through the @kossnetwork.bsky.social, 2018-23. 2/3
23.07.2025 07:56 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Congratulations to CPA colleagues @gracehealy.bsky.social, @drlaurenhammond.bsky.social, Alexis Stones, Emma Newall, Zongyi Deng & @arthurjchapman.bsky.social on their papers and to our @kossnetwork.bsky.social co-authors! Looking forward to continued work together! 3/3
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Call for KOSS network 2026 conference papers.
Didactica Viva: General and subject-specific didactics as living and responsive fields
20-22 May 2026
Faculty of Education, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Really looking forward to hearing from Tony Breslin on school improvement at our next FEPG Zoom meeting on the 23rd June. 7.00pm-9.00pm
Fabian colleagues will be sent the zoom link as usual.
see below for more details.
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Great to hear from Professor Tomas Janik, Masarjk Univesrity about the next @kossnetwork.bsky.social conference in the Czech Republic in May 2026. Call for papers as below. 7
22.05.2025 09:43 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Thanks to Dr Wilton Lodge for such an excellent opening to the #KOSS2025 conference with your opening keynote 'Towards racially just research and scholarship practices'
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CSSRG & KOSS colleagues have published extensively since 2018 on our key research foci. Here @ IOE we’ve collaborated with KOSS on the editorial board of our @uclpress.bsky.social book series #knowledgeandthecurriculum. uclpress.co.uk/book-series/.... Our latest open access book launched 20th May. 4
22.05.2025 08:47 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
We have been delighted to broaden the base of KOSS in recent years, engaging with German and Czech colleagues, for example. CSSRG is the @cpaucl.bsky.social research group involved in KOSS. 3 www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/departme...
22.05.2025 08:41 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0KOSS began meeting in 2018 and explores paradigms of knowledge and curriculum in a range of contexts, starting with Swedish, English and Finnish models, supported by Swedish government funding. www.kau.se/en/rose/exte... 2/2
22.05.2025 08:38 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Exciting to be attending @dr-willo.bsky.social’s keynote today on racially just research and scholarship, opening-up our @kossnetwork.bsky.social event, with @cpaucl.bsky.social and Czech colleagues in the room and by 32 colleagues joining us online. 1/2 @ioe.bsky.social
22.05.2025 08:33 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0We are delighted that both Curriculum expert, Graham Donaldson and General Secretary of the Fabians, Joe Dromey join us for zoom meeting on Monday 19th May at 7.00pm
Members will receive the zoom link as usual
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Pleased to see this paper is available - it is one of a collection for a special issue of JCS on “Transnational and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Subject Didactics” based on a paper presented at the @kossnetwork.bsky.social conference at University of Trier in 2024.
dx.doi.org/10.1080/0022...
New article out today!
Niemelä, M. A., Niemi, K., Salmenkivi, E., & Stones, A. (2025). Powers of knowledge in secondary religious education curricula of Sweden, England, and Finland. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 1–19. doi.org/10.1080/0022...
Really looking forward to our SEND discussion at Monday's FEPG meeting with Cllr Valerie Bossmann Quarshie and panel.
An opportunity to discuss the current issues in this key area of provision.
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Curricula are camels, written by committee, & heteroglossic, reflecting the various aims & discourses of their multiple makers. Excited 2C this @kossnetwork.bsky.social paper published - reflecting on history curricular aims comparatively, across 3 countries & combining conceptual lenses. 1/2
29.03.2025 08:26 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0@thefabians.bsky.social @joedromey.bsky.social @iggywood.bsky.social
20.03.2025 20:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@kossnetwork.bsky.social
18.03.2025 11:17 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Really looking forward to Ian's talk on political education on 31st March at 7.00pm
The Zoom link for this meeting will be sent to all members in due course. We welcome other interested colleagues to contact our chair-details on the flyer.
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Really looking forward to our next FEPG Meeting on 31st March ( see below). Ian Davies will be talking about political education and citizenship.
Zoom link to follow
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We are very pleased to attach the final version of our report on Aims and Values of the curriculum held at the House of Commons
You can access the pdf report here
www.fabianeducation.com/fepgreviewandreports
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Excellent meeting with the inspiring Richard Poutney and Andy Sprakes of XP school last Monday. Thanks to Tracey Price for chairing a discussion around the new proposed Ofsted framework, too.
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Really looking forward to hearing from Richard Pountney and Andy Sprakes of the XP Trust at our next FEPG meeting on Monday 24th February 7.00-9.00pm.
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@rethinkingjames.bsky.social
Our very first edition of the FEPG Review with newsletter, articles by Sir David Bell, @deb_outhwaite @brianghudson, David Cooper and reviews of recent educational books.
See www.fabianeducation.com/fepgreview
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Sorry Penny - it wasn’t
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