Chris Davison discusses the innovative assessment developments in their educational environments and some of the conceptual and practical issues of the different approaches to using assessment to promote learning. 

Research has demonstrated the prevalence of men’s victimisation of intimate partner violence, and more recently there has been qualitative work to highlight the severity and impact of their experiences. Little research has explored how the abuse continues or changes once the couple have separated.

Using a collection of settler family letters to the Elementary Correspondence School (ECS) in British Columbia, the first provincial government–supported “schooling by mail” arrangement of its kind in Canada, Mona Gleason discusses the efforts of rural families to secure an education for their children in the period between the First and Second World Wars.

Rachel Lofthouse discusses the significance of specialist expertise in coaching headteachers. Amongst the research findings were strong indicators of the value placed by the headteachers on the expertise, independence and quality of the coaching provision

The practice of managerial coaching is increasing globally, although there is still comparatively little research into it. Grace McCarthy discusses the motivation of managers and offers recommendations for those seeking to foster managerial coaching in their organisations. Grace McCarthy is the Dean of Sydney Business School at the University of Wollongong

Jim Watterston discusses young people across Australia of compulsory school age who, for multiple reasons, are not participating in a school or an education program of any type.

Steve Jordan discusses how forms of action and participatory research can be used to enhance the learning of adults in Canada.

The notion of insurrection has been increasingly deployed as a way of describing recent uprisings around the world – from Tahrir Square to Occupy Wall Street, from the ‘movement of the squares’ in Madrid and Athens to Gezi Park in Istanbul. Saul Newman discusses a theoretical understanding of the insurrection as a central concept in radical politics in order to account for contemporary movements and forms of mobilisation that seek to withdraw from governing institutions and affirm autonomous practices and forms of life.

Craig Deed discusses the need forstudent-oriented teaching and learning environments and theemergence of built informal learning environments oncampus.

Rachel Lofthouse discusses how to create powerful professional learning through coaching, mentoring and collaborative leadership in education