The BERA Blog was established in 2015 to provide research-informed content on key educational issues in an accessible manner.
Following engagement with Savage et al’s (2013) Great British Class Survey (GBCS), and subsequent criticisms of it – for instance, the selectivity of indicators of each capital (Bradley, 2014)...
Continue reading blog postThe ideas presented in this blog were developed in dialogue with a number of English sexuality education organizations, including acetUK, It Happens, Susie March, Think for Yourself, Teaching...
Continue reading blog postThe sickening death of African-American George Floyd by suffocation at the hands of a White-American policeman has justifiably fuelled the force of the #BlackLivesMatter movement across the world....
Continue reading blog postAlthough seminal teacher career models (Day, Sammons, Stobart, Kington, & Gu, 2007; Fessler & Christensen, 1992; Huberman, 1993; Sikes, Measor, & Woods, 1985) have established predetermined...
Continue reading blog post‘Man finds himself living in an aleatory world; his existence involves, to put it baldly, a gamble. The world is a scene of risk; it is uncertain, unstable, uncannily unstable.’ (Dewey, 1929,...
Continue reading blog post‘Doing less, making learning fun and looking after everyone’s wellbeing’
Continue reading blog postOn Friday 29 May 2020, ITV ran a story on the London regional news about a primary school whose pupils were reported to be ‘traveling the world’ through the adoption of video conferencing (VC)...
Continue reading blog postWales is in the process of undertaking a major overhaul of its national curriculum. Until recently, the curriculum largely resembled that put in place by the 1988 Education Reform Act. The new...
Continue reading blog postOver a period of 45 years working in higher education I have accumulated a lot of books. I am now sorting through that accumulation and trying to decide which I will keep and which I will pass on...
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