The Matthew effect at election time
The Matthew effect is an expression that has been coined to summarise the parable of the talents found in Matthew’s gospel (Matthew 25:14-30), which suggests that the rich get richer while the...
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BERA Blog Special Issues: General Election 2017
Special Edition of the BERA Blog – Focus on the Election 2017
With education a significant factor determining who votes and for which parties, the BERA Blog has published 4 posts in the run up to the election linking education to party policy, rhetoric and debate. With teacher education, teaching and learning, the curriculum, offender learning and child welfare just some of the many hot potatoes scolding the hands of political demagogues we are keen to hear responses from writers from the four nations.
Responding to disadvantage within English schools: a collaborative future
For the last ten years, researchers in the Centre for Equity in Education have been asking why, despite continuous reforms, the most vulnerable children and young people in the English school...
The politics of mental wellbeing and education
Social and emotional wellbeing (SEWB) in schools has, over the past decade, emerged as part of a broader mental health agenda, shaped and driven through versions of childhood located in notions of...
Assessing the manifesto commitments on assessment: progress, improved accountability, or continuous assessment
Educationists and teachers have long complained of policy overload, particularly during the Gove years when schools suffered a ‘policy epidemic’ with changes to assessment and the...
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The Matthew effect at election time
The Matthew effect is an expression that has been coined to summarise the parable of the talents found in Matthew’s gospel (Matthew 25:14-30), which suggests that the rich get richer while the...
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The politics of mental wellbeing and education
Social and emotional wellbeing (SEWB) in schools has, over the past decade, emerged as part of a broader mental health agenda, shaped and driven through versions of childhood located in notions of...
Continue reading blog post
Assessing the manifesto commitments on assessment: progress, improved accountability, or continuous assessment
Educationists and teachers have long complained of policy overload, particularly during the Gove years when schools suffered a ‘policy epidemic’ with changes to assessment and the...
Continue reading blog post
Responding to disadvantage within English schools: a collaborative future
For the last ten years, researchers in the Centre for Equity in Education have been asking why, despite continuous reforms, the most vulnerable children and young people in the English school...
Continue reading blog post