The BERA Blog was established in 2015 to provide research-informed content on key educational issues in an accessible manner.
We live in interesting times. We see global social media campaigns such as #MeToo, #BlackLivesMatter and #illRideWithYou responding to social, economic and political injustices, while on the other...
Continue reading blog postSchools are institutions in which racial conflict is brought into focus and can be acute. Gillborn (2008) asserts that current education policy is not designed to eliminate race inequality, but to...
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Today’s educational policy is co-produced, through policy bureaucrat’s words and technocrat’s lines of code. The global move towards digital governance and the digitising of educational...
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The Prevent duty (2009, 2011, 2015) is a statutory requirement upon all educational professionals to have due regard to prevent individuals being drawn into terrorism. Criticisms of the Prevent...
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Why is identity problematic for teacher educators? Identity transformation for early-career teacher educators has been shown to be problematic in the move from ‘expert teacher’ to ‘novice...
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The Labour party’s proposal for creating a National Education Service could, if they come to power, fulfil a long-felt need for bringing together and supporting the disparate parts of today’s...
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The study of education consists of a range of traditions with distinct origins, purposes and foci. Judge and colleagues have shown how education developed as a field of study in markedly different...
Continue reading blog postOver the last three years I have worked alongside diverse groups of young people, aged 13–25, to develop insight into what sexual consent might mean to them and why. I have also worked with 12...
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The under-achievement of white working class boys in England is well documented. They are the lowest academic achievers at the age of 16 for any socio-economic class grouping (Sutton Trust, 2016),...
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