Racism is a shapeshifter that adapts to silence minoritised ethnic voices, unless it is continually made visible. Race research therefore needs continuous development to challenge pervasive racisms within schools, higher education and government policy.

BERA Race, Ethnicity and Education special interest group (SIG) convenors Diane Carol Warner and Saima Salehjee have curated a new BERA journals virtual issue – Evaluating the worth of race, ethnicity and education over the last five years – to provide an overview of recent scholarship, trends and the evolution of epistemologies and ontologies pertaining to race in education.

This virtual issue includes an editorial and 12 papers examining educational debates around race and ethnicity that have been published in British Educational Research Journal (BERJ), British Journal of Educational Technology (BJET), Curriculum Journal (CJ) or Review of Education (RoE).        

BERA journals virtual issue: Evaluating the worth of race, ethnicity and education over the last five years

Table of contents

Editorial: Evaluating the worth of race, ethnicity and education over the last 5 years

Diane Carol Warner & Saima Salehjee

The impact of the hidden curriculum on international students in the context of a country with a toxic triangle of diversity

Sibel Baykut, Cihat Erbil, Mustafa Ozbilgin, Rifat Kamasak & Sercan Hamza Bağlama

Implementing equitable and intersectionality-aware ML in education: A practical guide

Mudit Mangal & Zachary A. Pardos

Finding ‘pockets of possibility’ for anti-racism in a curriculum for student teachers: From absence to action

Heather Smith & Vini Lander

Is social media use for math learning beneficial for ethnic minority students’ math identity? A socialization perspective

Xiang Hu, Haode Zuo, Chun Lai, Gaoxia Zhu, Jiesi Guo & Huiling Tan

Racism and the future of antiracism in education: A critical analysis of the Sewell Report

Leon Tikly

Decolonisation and anti-racism: Challenges and opportunities for (teacher) education

Lesley Le Grange

‘Deep understanding’ for anti-racist school transformation: School leaders’ professional development in the context of Black Lives Matter

Sharon Walker, Ian Bennett, Pavenjit Kettory, Clare Pike & Lee Walker

For whose benefit? Black and Minority Ethnic training programmes in higher education institutions in England, UK

Kalwant Bhopal

Black male teachers, white education spaces: Troubling school practices of othering and surveillance

Christine Callender

The recruitment and retention of teachers of colour in Wales. An ongoing conundrum?

Susan Davis, Chantelle Haughton, Sammy Chapman, Rom Okeke, Aylwin Yafele, Kin Yu & Martin Smith

‘University is a non-Muslim experience, you know? The experience is as good as it can be’: Satisfied settling in Muslim students’ experiences and implications for Muslim student voice

Maisha Islam & Lucy Mercer-Mapstone

Black and minority ethnic student teachers’ stories as empirical documents of hidden oppressions: Using the personal to turn towards the structural

Diane Warner