Join us for a look inside the latest issue of our award-winning Impact journal (Issue 27: Summer 2027). This issue focuses on innovative and creative pedagogies. Articles explore how diverse creative teaching approaches can boost motivation, support mental health, and broaden students’ knowledge and skills. There is also a focus on building student agency and resilience, finding innovative ways to help students access learning in challenging contexts. Finally, the issue deals with the ethical integration of AI in school settings, exploring how AI can be employed as an assistive tool, working in tandem with human creativity.
Chair and Panel:
Chair: Dr Karen Boardman (Head of Early Years Education at Edge Hill University)
Panellist: Amanda Bayley (Professor of Music, Bath Spa University). Amanda’s article from this issue discusses an interdisciplinary project run across two primary schools called Hear Water, which brought together ‘music, art and environmental science to help students to learn outdoors through deep listening to blue spaces, and then compose with and perform indoors the sounds that they captured’.
Panellist: Jen Ager (Senior Lecturer in Education, University of Cumbria) and Dave Harvey (Honorary Senior Lecturer, Bangor University). Jen and Dave’s article explores how ‘pedagogical innovation becomes possible when outdoor learning is legitimised by policy, inspection frameworks and school leadership’.
Panellist: Kelly Ashley (Lecturer in Reading for Pleasure, The Open University). Kelly’s article looks at the professional development journeys of two schools and their evidence-informed approach to implementing and developing reading for pleasure cultures across a school year.
