In pursuit of the elusive doctorate: Managing the last half-mile and getting home
Frustration and confusion can dominate the doctoral writing experience, and never more so than during the last half-mile.
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The impact of the prevent duty on schools: What does the evidence tell us?
The UK government has become influential in the field of countering violent extremism (CVE), and Kundnani and Hayes (2018) document how its legislation and policy framework has been exported...
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Phonological processing and mathematical achievements: A new look at the gender gap in mathematics
Phonological processing refers to an individual’s sensitivity to the sounds of a language, and the capacity to use these sounds to decode linguistic information. It is noted that phonological...
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We need to talk about language: The researcher view
Coming from a background in community learning and development, my work in partnership with Banff Academy as part of my PhD research has been an interesting and rewarding experience. I find myself...
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Re-imagining the classroom to encourage school students to learn about literature
Motivating children to learn about literature and stay motivated in class is a challenge which we have found a way to address. We found that creating e-artefacts – that is, digital artefacts...
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It’s time to talk about language
The first in a pair of blogs by Jamie Fairbairn and Claire Needler about their project, 'Local language, school and community: Curricular innovation towards closing the achievement gap', which won...
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Encouraging educational research into nature, outdoor learning and play
BERA has a new Nature, Outdoor Learning and Play (NOLAP) special interest group (SIG)! It has the strategic aim of encouraging educational research into nature, outdoor learning and play across...
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Curriculum coherence facilitates school development
The ways in which local educational stakeholders interpret and understand curriculum reform is crucial to its effects on everyday school practice (see for exampleSpillane, Reiser & Reimer, 2002)....
Continue reading blog postLifelong learning ecologies: The challenge of capturing emergent forms of learning
Why does a powerful metaphor of learning in our contemporary society poorly convey empirical research, research transfer and applications? This appears to be true of the concept of ‘learning...
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