London Review of Education 

About: London Review of Education is an academic journal published by UCL Press. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Higher education & Curriculum. It has an ISSN identifier of 1474-8460. It is also open access. Over the lifetime, 611 publications have been published receiving 9677 citations.

'New Wave' Student Voice and the Renewal of Civic Society

Abstract: The re-emerging field of 'student voice' has the potential to offer an important contribution to education for civic society. An exploration of what 'student voice' aspires to and what it actually does suggests quite different sets of possibilities for educational and civic renewal. A new intellectual framework is offered in the hope that it might contribute further to democratic aspirations and emergent realities.

Learning Spaces in Higher Education: An Under-Researched Topic.

Abstract: The connections between the design and use of space in higher education, and the production of teaching and learning, and of research, are not well understood. This paper reports on a literature review on these topics, and shows that higher education spaces can be considered in various ways: in terms of campus design, in terms of how space can support the development of a university community, the needs of specialist spaces, and the impact of technology on space use. Space issues are central to the operation of universities, and further research is needed to illuminate the connections between space and institutional effectiveness.

Influences of parents' education on their children's educational attainments: the role of parent and child perceptions

Abstract: This paper is based on a talk given at the conference of the Centre for Research on the Wider Benefits of Learning, September 2004. There is consistent evidence that parents' education predicts children's educational outcomes, alongside other distal family characteristics such as family income, parents' occupations and residence location. A variety of explanations have been offered for these associations. In this paper, we review the most prominent explanations, present a comprehensive model of the influences of parents' education and then summarize some of the research we have done that focuses on the role of parental influences on children's academic achievement.

Academic blogging: academic practice and academic identity

Abstract: This paper describes a small-scale study which investigates the role of blogging in professional academic practice in higher education. It draws on interviews with a sample of academics (scholars, researchers and teachers) who have blogs and on the author's own reflections on blogging to investigate the function of blogging in academic practice and its contribution to academic identity. It argues that blogging offers the potential of a new genre of accessible academic production which could contribute to the creation of a new twenty-first century academic identity with more involvement as a public intellectual.