Dear subscribers (and new readers)
As promised in last week’s ‘Extra’, today’s edition is a traditional EDDi digest - albeit one with a few extra bonus features.
We have two digests of two excellent academic papers:
Parents as Consumers: A case study of parent satisfaction with the quality of schooling
Appointing Senior Managers in Education: Homosociability, local logics and authenticity in the selection process
In addition we are also delighted to feature the work of Annie-Jane Finch-Johnson. Annie has picked up the theme of digesting academic journal articles, applying it pictorially to pastoral research. We’ll be featuring selections of Annie’s digests in future EDDi’s. Here’s the first:
More of Annie’s work can be read on her blog: talkpastoral.com.
To round things off, we have a piece by Dr Patrick Lee considering how we might take advantage of emerging ‘Metaverse’ technologies in education:
Until next week…happy reading
EDDi