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Values in Education

Transforming the BSc Education Student Experience at Cardiff University

Transforming the BSc Education Student Experience at Cardiff University

Posted on 21 July 2025 by Dr Kevin Smith

How do you transform the student experience? This post reflects on the collective effort behind Cardiff’s BSc Education programme—how collaboration, care, and curricular coherence reshaped teaching, learning, and community from the inside out.

Rethinking “Best Practices”: Teaching Beyond Technique

Posted on 20 July 2019 by Dr Kevin Smith

Have we mistaken good technique for good teaching? In this post, Dr Kevin Talbert challenges the “best practices” orthodoxy in education and argues for teacher preparation that cultivates wisdom, reflection and moral purpose. Drawing on Freire and Harris, he makes the case for re-centring teaching on values and vocation, not standardised methods.