The BERA Blog was established in 2015 to provide research-informed content on key educational issues in an accessible manner.
I recently conducted a study on the reported “national scandal” of teachers leaving the profession. For example, 40% of teachers are found to leave within their first five years (Wilshaw,...
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One of the most striking characteristics of the post-compulsory education sector in England is the teaching of programmes with a vocational route to work. There is a tenacious underlying...
Continue reading blog postTailored around the relationship between teaching and learning, I argue that self-study of teacher education practices (S-STEP) offers a way of respectively prepare pre-service teachers for the...
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This study was inspired as a response to an Erasmus Mobility Grant to the Netherlands. Anecdotal conversations with colleagues there led to a discussion about the different approaches being taken...
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Just over twenty years ago, following a PhD in school based ITE (Articled Teachers, soon to be defunct) to the sound of seagulls in glorious Devon, I found myself in London – part of a big ESRC...
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Having worked as a teacher educator since 2006, I’ve observed significant changes and developments from the perspective of my roles in a University and as director of a SCITT. As an evolving...
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Schools are bombarded with products and courses that claim to be informed by research in Neuroscience and/or Digital Technology. Despite warnings from the OECD, the Royal Society (UK), the...
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In 1999 higher education ministers from 29 European countries signed the Bologna Declaration (currently 49 signatory countries) and committed themselves to the creation of the European Higher...
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Over the last twenty years many writers, including ourselves, have drawn attention to the affective in educational organisations, including Fineman (1993, 1999), Hargreaves (1998a; 1998b), Beatty...
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