Published in Learning, Media and Technology (Vol. 51, No. 1, 2026)

Photo by Henrik L. on Unsplash Academic publishing is currently experiencing a viral spread of “zombie citations.” This term refers to references of academic publications that do not ex…

This article reports on a comparative policy analysis which examined education policy guiding the use of exclusionary discipline practices across four Australian states (Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria, and Queensland). Exclusionary practices, such as suspensions and exclusions, are commonly used to respond to problematic student behaviour, yet their effectiveness as a behaviour management strategy remains unsupported by research. Through a comparative analysis of current policy ...

Doing a PhD can feel like wandering through a forest with no map. You’re constantly questioning whether you’re smart enough, working hard enough or heading in the right direction. If yo…

This article examines recent trends in the data infrastructures of Australian schools. Data interoperability has become integral to school operations as it enables data to flow between the array of .....

ClassDojo is a popular educational technology platform used by teachers to manage students’ behaviour and communicate with parents. This platform, though, along with other similar digital classroom...

Education is increasingly infiltrated by technology and datafication. This techno-data amplification is entangled with neoliberalism and the emphasis on calculation and measurement it brings, often...

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A new position paper warns against the uncritical adoption of AI in academia

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Just published online! A special collection for Critical Studies in Education titled "The political life of education online" edited by myself, Keith Heggart and Dr Sheena MacRae. https://l...

Affective computing applications promise to decode human emotional expressions and provide objective insights into users’ affective experience, ranging from frustration and boredom to states of clinic...

Yesterday marked my fifth Mother's Day without him. Tomorrow is the fifth anniversary of his passing. My beautiful boy, for whom I still grieve and will grieve every day forever; and despite his death...

‘Level Up,’ developed by Eliott Hedman, wants to flip a bleak script around artificial intelligence and its negative effects on student motivation.

Digital technologies interact in different ways with the professionality of teachers to ultimately reshape the most defining features of their job. In this article, we explore how edtech brokers, i...

The rapid flooding of edtech products in classrooms worldwide has outpaced regulation and research, resulting in many of these tools being adopted without any understanding of their long-term educatio...

The 74 published an op-ed this week, penned by an AI industry consultant, invoking Sputnik and claiming that "AI education is the new space race." I'm going to set aside its problematic call for "AI l...

In this Director’s Note, Christopher Newfield shares some of his thoughts ahead of the forthcoming

An interview with Phil Nichols about Building the Innovation School

If you don't mind, I'd like to return to that other big story that appeared recently in The Atlantic. No, no, not the one where editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg describes how he was added to the Trump...

What does ‘misbehaviour’ sound like? This article answers this question by analysing 563 behaviour policies from the 34 largest multi-academy trusts in England, contextualising this within a long h...

This special issue offers an exploration of the interaction of datafication and temporality in educational governance and demonstrates the many ways in which this interaction can be framed, theoriz...

The political-technological crisis is only deepening in the United States, and I hardly know where to begin today's email to you, other than to say that I hope you're okay. And if you're not, do feel ...