The BERA Blog was established in 2015 to provide research-informed content on key educational issues in an accessible manner.
England’s Department for Education recently launched the Early Career Framework (ECF) for the first two years of a teacher’s career (DfE 2019). This initiative, welcome though it is,...
Continue reading blog postThe concept of student engagement has attracted increasing attention over recent years due to its potential predictiveness of students’ learning outcomes, and to the fact that student...
Continue reading blog postBERA’s 2019–2020 research commission on the early years – entitled Competing Discourses of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC): Tensions, Impacts and Democratic Alternatives across the...
Continue reading blog postThere is a lack of historical accounts of the further education (FE) sector in England and Wales, which is reflective of its broader historical-cultural positioning. FE sits between secondary...
Continue reading blog postThe culture of transforming everything into products to be ‘consumed by the market’ is manifesting itself as a global pathology. This trend is destroying longstanding communities of practice...
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Many policy initiatives around the world related to technology in education (or ‘e-learning’) share the vision that e-learning will improve student learning and foster their development of...
Continue reading blog postWe know that research in the field of educational technology has grown substantially in importance over the last decade or so – mainly due to the huge investment by many governments in...
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You’re at work late on a Friday night. The clock reads 9:58pm, and you’ve just finished providing feedback for the very last of your students’ essays. In the corner of your office, you spot...
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Learning spaces are changing. Classrooms, once filled with uniform furnishings and distinct ‘teacher’ and ‘student’ territories, are being reimagined to provide learning spaces that...
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