BERA Blog post #1,000
It hardly seems possible, six years after its creation of the BERA Blog, that this is its one-thousandth post. The brainchild of BERA CEO Nick Johnson, in 2015 the BB set out to provide...
Blog Series
Highlights from the first 1,000 BERA Blog posts
This series celebrates our one-thousandth BERA Blog post by republishing some of our favourites from among the posts that have proven most popular since the blog began in 2015. The collection both gives new readers a taste of the breadth and quality of what the BERA Blog offers up on an approximately thrice-weekly basis, and allows regular readers to catch up with some of the best content they may have missed over the years.
‘Blog #1,000’ provides an introduction of these edited highlights from BERA Blog editors Rowena Passy, Alison Fox and Gerry Czerniawski, who take stock of how ours became the leading international blog on educational research, and encourage you – yes, you! – to join the conversation by becoming a contributor.
Researching with young and developmentally young children: Ethical considerations, dilemmas and compromises
One of the most challenging considerations when researching with children is the question of gaining their consent to participate in research and their perspectives on the topic under study....
Developing the role of the teaching assistant: Centralisation as a way forward?
The teaching assistants (TAs) that I meet are enthusiastic, keen to improve their practice, and valued by the teachers and senior leaders that they work with. However, research on the national...
Teacher agency: What is it and why does it matter?
The concept of ‘teacher agency’ has elicited a fair amount of attention recently, including a special edition of Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice. And yet, it remains an elusive...
Pupil voice in quality assurance of schools
The importance of quality assurance in education is established both by politicians and teachers alike. Schools embrace quality assurance primarily because they recognise its role in...
Writing a world-leading (four star) publication
The idea that research could be described as ‘4*’ came from the UK’s Research Excellence Framework (REF). Four-star research is 'world-leading in terms of originality, significance and...
Child-friendly research in the early years
This article is part of the BERA Blog special issue ‘Researching the Curriculum in schools and colleges: Practice, Professionalism and Innovation’ (read more). How can the curriculum be...
Globalisation and individualism: Implications for the inclusion agenda
It is known that, over recent decades, societies around the world have witnessed drastic transformations that have affected various facets of people’s lives. These changes have created...
The gender wars, academic freedom and education
Academics who do not adhere to a particular line on gender and transgender issues have suffered intimidation by trans activists. The people under attack are not mavericks or extremists. They are...
Pastoral care: a whole-school approach to creating the ethos of wellbeing that culminates in better engagement and improved academic achievement of learners
‘Pastoral care’ was a term once used exclusively to describe the role of shepherds caring for their sheep in the pasture in Christian religious communities, and this provides a glimpse into...
Five education myths that Covid-19 shatters
Education has been practised and conceptualised internationally in ways that demonstrate its increasing privatisation, enabled through a dependency on numerical data and an adherence to a social...
How has Covid-19 affected the way in which teacher educators engage their students with learning?
In this blog we seek to understand the impact that the sudden and enforced move to online teaching due to the Covid-19 pandemic has had on the perceptions of teacher educators in initial teacher...
Content in this series
Researching with young and developmentally young children: Ethical considerations, dilemmas and compromises
One of the most challenging considerations when researching with children is the question of gaining their consent to participate in research and their perspectives on the topic under study....
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Teacher agency: What is it and why does it matter?
The concept of ‘teacher agency’ has elicited a fair amount of attention recently, including a special edition of Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice. And yet, it remains an elusive...
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Developing the role of the teaching assistant: Centralisation as a way forward?
The teaching assistants (TAs) that I meet are enthusiastic, keen to improve their practice, and valued by the teachers and senior leaders that they work with. However, research on the national...
Continue reading blog post
Pupil voice in quality assurance of schools
The importance of quality assurance in education is established both by politicians and teachers alike. Schools embrace quality assurance primarily because they recognise its role in...
Continue reading blog post
Writing a world-leading (four star) publication
The idea that research could be described as ‘4*’ came from the UK’s Research Excellence Framework (REF). Four-star research is 'world-leading in terms of originality, significance and...
Continue reading blog post
Child-friendly research in the early years
This article is part of the BERA Blog special issue ‘Researching the Curriculum in schools and colleges: Practice, Professionalism and Innovation’ (read more). How can the curriculum be...
Continue reading blog post
Globalisation and individualism: Implications for the inclusion agenda
It is known that, over recent decades, societies around the world have witnessed drastic transformations that have affected various facets of people’s lives. These changes have created...
Continue reading blog post
The gender wars, academic freedom and education
Academics who do not adhere to a particular line on gender and transgender issues have suffered intimidation by trans activists. The people under attack are not mavericks or extremists. They are...
Continue reading blog post
Pastoral care: a whole-school approach to creating the ethos of wellbeing that culminates in better engagement and improved academic achievement of learners
‘Pastoral care’ was a term once used exclusively to describe the role of shepherds caring for their sheep in the pasture in Christian religious communities, and this provides a glimpse into...
Continue reading blog post
Five education myths that Covid-19 shatters
Education has been practised and conceptualised internationally in ways that demonstrate its increasing privatisation, enabled through a dependency on numerical data and an adherence to a social...
Continue reading blog post
How has Covid-19 affected the way in which teacher educators engage their students with learning?
In this blog we seek to understand the impact that the sudden and enforced move to online teaching due to the Covid-19 pandemic has had on the perceptions of teacher educators in initial teacher...
Continue reading blog post
BERA Blog post #1,000
It hardly seems possible, six years after its creation of the BERA Blog, that this is its one-thousandth post. The brainchild of BERA CEO Nick Johnson, in 2015 the BB set out to provide...
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