University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education
Wellbeing and Inclusion Special Interest Group Blog
We are the Wellbeing and Inclusion Special Interest Group at the University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education, and this is our blog. Here you can find the latest debates we have been engaging in related to matters of wellbeing and inclusion in education, considered from a range of disciplinary perspectives. Our blogs are all written by members of the University, including teaching staff, doctoral students, experienced and trainee teachers.
The aim of this blog is to disseminate our current thinking and share our discussions with others working in the field.
Researching complex and current issues relating to wellbeing and inclusion
- “What Was The Alternative?”: A Pedagogical Exploration of R (EBB) v Gorse Academy Trust [2025]By Elijah Wisken “[…] at the heart of the challenge is the matter of the reasonableness of the School’s having engineered an outcome in which the Claimants had spent anything up to a fifth, a quarter, or approaching a half, of an academic year removed from classroom teaching. And that is the core question withContinue reading ““What Was The Alternative?”: A Pedagogical Exploration of R (EBB) v Gorse Academy Trust [2025]”
Who we are
We are a Special Interest Group with a focus on research that tackles complex and current issues relating to wellbeing and inclusion. You can find out more about us on our Faculty website.
What we do
Our work spans issues that are increasingly at the forefront of national and international policy and debate and are closely intertwined. Understanding the complexity of the everyday lived experiences of children and young people and professionals who work with them is enriched by a transdisciplinary approach to research that brings together people from a range of disciplinary backgrounds and theoretical approaches, as represented by members of this special interest group and the events and seminars throughout the year.
To find out more about the work of our Special Interest Group, please visit our Faculty website.
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