SIG Forum Meeting – Alternative Education
Join the Alternative Education SIG annual meeting to network with colleagues, learn about the activities of the SIG over the last year and plans for 2023 This meeting will be hosted online,...
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Fadoua Govaerts, Ms
PhD student at University of Bath
Fadoua Govaerts is a PhD researcher at the University of Bath, in the Department of Education. Her doctoral research project explores the experience of home-educated adolescents, with a special focus on their educational outcomes and social development. Fadoua uses participatory research methodology, allowing children to be researchers. Her research interests are broad, but are mostly around alternative education and child-led learning. Fadoua has almost 20 years of experience in the education sector, teaching in primary, secondary and higher education, in addition to spending the last 12 years home-educating her own five children. This background has manifested a passion around finding educational opportunities beyond traditional methods. In her spare time you will find Fadoua building Lego, running, cooking or in a café with a cappuccino and cake.
Fadoua Govaerts's contributions
The future of Alternative Provision: reflections on the opportunities and challenges
In this interactive seminar, the SIG welcomes Dr Andy Malcolm, Senior Lecturer in the Childhood and Youth Studies (University of Bedfordshire), to share the findings from his recent work on...
The future of Alternative Provision: reflections on the opportunities and challenges in a post-pandemic world
Online registration has now closed for this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk to register. The landscape of Alternative Provision (AP) has increasingly diversified and evolved across the four...
Collaging childhoods’ relationships
In October 2021, the BERA Children and Childhoods special interest group (SIG) organised the webinar Transforming Childhoods’ Relationships, sharing seven doctoral research studies to explore...
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Transforming Childhoods’ Relationships: A Collage of Experience
Online registration has now closed for this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk to register. #BERA_Transform @BERANews These are unprecedented times. The world is grappling with a...
Transforming Childhoods’ Relationships: A Collage of Experience
These are unprecedented times. The world is grappling with a pandemic, huge environmental challenges, racial, social and economic inequalities, democratic deficit and a profound transformation of...
Towards developing an education continuity plan: Supporting schools in times of crisis
This report considers how educational continuity plans (ECPs) can better support schools in times of crisis, specifically from the perspective of headteachers, whose experiences, challenges and...
Alternative Education
The Alternative Education SIG takes the broadest approach to ‘alternative’ that we can. We are interested in all forms of out of school educational provision and with ‘alternative’...