Max Antony-Newman

@max-antony-newman.bsky.social

Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Education at the University of Glasgow. Parent engagement, immigration and education, Pierre Bourdieu.

It’s finally here 😁 The 2nd edition paperback version of Teacher Agency: An Ecological Approach has just been published. This edition is substantially updated, including a critical review of literature published since the 1st edition. Order your copy at www.bloomsbury.com/uk/teacher-a...

Teacher Agency

This second edition of Teacher Agency brings new perspectives on teachers as agents of change and development within their professional ecosystems. Centred arou…

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I'm starting a thread on stories of policy reversals on digital learning and technology policies amidst growing evidence that lower learning outcomes seem to have followed mass expansion of digital device and learning tools about a decade on in elementary, secondary, and university education.

Prof Prachi Srivastava 🌈@prachisrivas.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Saw a story by Deutsche Welle on this the other day and now the BBC. 'Sweden's government is championing a renewed focus on physical books, paper and pens in classrooms, designed to reverse falling literacy levels.' Not surprising: opposition from tech companies. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Happy to share my open-access article "Towards conceptualizing plurilingualism as critical: evidence from the field" that develops the concept of critical plurilingualism. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Grateful to my participants, reviewers, CILS editorial team and UCL for open access support!

Towards conceptualizing plurilingualism as critical: evidence from the field

Critical dimensions of plurilingualism came to the fore during the multilingual ‘turn’ in language education (LE), marked by the prominence given to issues of justice, equality, and rights regardin...

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Haven't posted here yet but wanted to share a recent academic article I wrote for the International Journal of Bilingualism titled, "Multilingual Mothering: Shifting Emotional Connections to a Heritage Language After the Transition to Motherhood (Matrescence)" journals.sagepub.com/share/Z6QJTB...

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The average immigrant worker in Canada's biggest immigration wave faced a large & persisting earnings penalty relative to the native-born, according to Ian Keay & Daniel Teeter who use new complete count census data to argue that assimilation was slower in Canada than in the US.

Immigrants’ labour market experiences in early twentieth century Canada

In this paper we use newly digitized complete-count micro data from the 1901, 1911 and 1921 Canadian population censuses to document foreign born assimilation into Canadian labor markets during the...

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Study (N=8,097) finds women more likely to finish a PhD before 30 & have children after 35. Men tended to become parents during doctoral studies & often had 3+ children by 40. Early-career mothers had lower citation rates; fathers had no such penalties. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Female Academics Increasingly Delay Motherhood Until Age 35

“Pronounced penalties” for those early-career staff with children may explain why Ph.D.s postpone becoming parents, a recent study finds.

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Ten years ago, Scotland overwhelmingly voted to remain in the EU but was taken out against our will. Our best future lies in becoming an independent member state of the EU, and working with our neighbours to build a stronger, more prosperous country. 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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I think part of why we get these weird articles because some folks are clinging to a caricature of what education is and what it’s supposed to do. With the assumption that we are the only line for things that are quite broad and complex involve community, rather than one institution.

My article is finally up on Urban Affairs Review. It's about conducting ethnographies, interviews and focus groups during a time of crisis. I talk about expectations between the researcher and participants, and rethinking what hard to reach means during a crisis. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Reaching the Unreachable: Building Trust in Chicago Black Neighborhoods During Times of Crisis - Justin Zimmerman, 2026

Crises affect researchers’ ability to conduct interviews, focus groups, and ethnographies. I discuss my interactions with participants to explain how I overcame...

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Anxious children, anxious parents… Is it also because today we are pressured to overinvest financially and emotionally into our children? I really enjoyed a podcast conversation with pediatrician Dr. Ted Plimpton, one of his first with a sociologist. #parenting #anxiety #pressure

Princeton University Press@princetonupress.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Listen: Overinvested author @ninabandelj.bsky.social speaks with Edward Plimpton, host of Your Anxious Child, about “intensive parenting” and parental burnout:

Disinvestment in public education is one factor for increased household spending on children. Many of these activities were part and parcel of what was offered in schools. Cutting funding for the arts, music, sports, extra-curriculars has meant households who can, will spend out-of-pocket.