The BERA Blog was established in 2015 to provide research-informed content on key educational issues in an accessible manner.
Where music making takes place, it often co-exists in a world that is characterised by poverty, disease, and child mortality (cf Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; UN Human Development Index). Human...
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Current educational change in England is based on the rationale that schools may be continually improved in ways that facilitate competitive advantage on a world stage. This rationale enables...
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Education has fallen down the political agenda. It deserves more attention.
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Call it what you like - practitioner enquiry, classroom-based research, reflective analysis, clinical practice, evidence-informed leadership - the need for teachers and school leaders to look...
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Hello world. We are delighted to announce the launch of the BERA Blog. If you are a teacher, researcher, policy maker, politician, parent, or simply someone interested in writing or reading about...
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The Higher Education Academy (HEA, 2013) published research on Rebalancing promotion in the HE sector: is teaching excellence being rewarded? is appropriately authored by academics from...
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With the rise of digital technologies, the rapid expansion of globalization, and the growing reliance on distance learning in teaching today, it seems important we be increasingly mindful of the...
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I have spent the majority of the last 25 years as an educationalist living and working in coastal regions. I have come to recognise and understanding the difference that this locality makes to the...
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Personal uneasiness arises out of things that touch us: either because we are moved by what we hear or because of things happening in our own lives. A commitment to follow C. Wright Mill’s...
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