The BERA Blog was established in 2015 to provide research-informed content on key educational issues in an accessible manner.
The lower educational attainment of looked after children compared with their peers not in care has long been the subject of interest and research. The dominant position is that the reason behind...
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I have carefully reviewed the evidence for the benefits of inspection as well as for any undesirable consequences. The former include the national monitoring of the quality of education,...
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Evidence-informed practice in classrooms (EPiC practice) is a growing issue for teachers in schools and interestingly a Google search on the topic gives a million and a half returns. Over recent...
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Homewood School and Sixth Form Centre is a Secondary School Academy in rural Kent. I have been working as a Teacher Researcher at Homewood since 2014, and during that time I have produced a...
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In an age of research excellence assessment, what type of curriculum research is valued? The field of curriculum research is varied. There are scholars whose work is renowned internationally and...
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In some ways, the recent controversy over Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence, introduced in 2010, could be said to be going over a familiar knowledge versus skills debate. Not only is it banal...
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In the last two decades, the terms ‘21st century skills’ and ‘21st century competences’ have been widely adopted to represent the ambition for an educational reform that will lead to a...
Continue reading blog postA child starts learning in the womb, but real learning is perceived to start much later and is certainly not often associated with the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS). Real learning is often...
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In a recent study (Prytz 2017), I show that a standard narrative about Swedish school governance in the 20th century does not fit how the school subject mathematics (years 1–9) was governed in...
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