The Research Centre for Teaching, Learning and Curriculum (TLC) foregrounds questions relating to education across a range of settings, including schools, universities, community and out-of-school contexts. We research the teaching and learning of individuals, groups and systems from a range of perspectives, including practitioner research, and much of this work includes a focus on issues of social and climate justice.
Our areas of research
- Critical reflection
- Curriculum studies
- Decolonisation
- Digital education
- Research ethics
- Scholarship of teaching and learning
- Teacher education
- Well-being
Our Centre benefits from disciplinary and methodological diversity, provides a welcoming space for the sharing of ideas and expertise, and promotes joint writing activity and collaborative research bids.
Our Centre is a home for many doctoral students in the School of Education.
Coming soon
How does the planet come to matter in your research?
Date: 20-10-26
Time: 14.00 – 15.00 (UK time)
Room: 4.01 (SoE, UoB)
Mode: F2F
Chair: Dr. Simon Brownhill (TLC Co-Director)
Presenters: Kate le Roux (University of Cape Town) and Alf Coles (University of Bristol)
Description: In this session, Kate and Alf will raise questions about what it means to be researching in a time of social and ecological precarity. They will offer a range of ways of conceptualising ecological and socio-ecological relations (in an educational context) and draw out implications for philosophy and methodology. Questions raised will include: How do we conceptualise "nature" and its relation to "culture"? What does it mean to consider the more-than-human in a context of racialised and social inequalities? How do we balance thinking from place with the need for some planetary awareness? What is the role of traditional "disciplines" in the future of schools or universities?
This session will include time for small and whole group discussion - researchers from all areas of the School are welcome!
ACTION:
If you would like to attend this seminar, please email Simon (simon.brownhill@bristol.ac.uk) so that we have an accurate idea of attendee numbers on the day (max. #20).
If you have any questions or queries about the event above, please do not hesitate to direct them to Simon (simon.brownhill@bristol.ac.uk) in the first instance.