The BERA Blog was established in 2015 to provide research-informed content on key educational issues in an accessible manner.
Historians write counter-factuals: brief papers that speculate about ‘what ifs?’ For example if William of Normandy had lost the battle of Hastings in 1066 what would the UK have looked...
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In the United Kingdom, it is widely documented both in academic circles and in the popular press that white working-class children consistently underperform at school and are less likely to attend...
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the tendencies related to teacher attrition in many countries are alarming and have huge economical as well as educational implications The quality of teaching is of concern in most countries...
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An email message came round to the National Teaching Fellow (NTF) email list inviting us to write a blog article for BERA and I jumped at the chance. The invitation hit me at the right moment and...
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With the election of the first Conservative majority government since 1997, and the re-appointment of Nicky Morgan as Secretary of State, we can confidently expect a continuation of the school led...
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It might seem as if buildings, the physical location of education, are of only tangential interest to an education researcher: something that can be left to architects in the same way as the human...
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Teaching mathematics is a social justice issue. Despite numerous calls from the mathematics education community, the curriculum in England remains stubbornly resistant to change. Too many...
Continue reading blog postOne of the most challenging considerations when researching with children is the question of gaining their consent to participate in research and their perspectives on the topic under study....
Continue reading blog postIt came as no surprise when I encountered a synthesis of 89 papers on research methods education in the social sciences including education (Earley, 2014) which found that students taking research...
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