Professional Learning for Teacher Leadership

Scotland: Reform, professionalism and delivery

Teacher leadership is a term which is increasingly being used in Scottish educational policy and the Scottish College for Educational Leadership (SCEL) has been tasked with supporting the...

Teacher Agency and Curriculum Development

Scotland: Reform, professionalism and delivery

Recent curriculum policy in the UK and elsewhere (e.g. Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence, Successful Futures in Wales, and the New Zealand Curriculum Framework) marks a significant departure...

International Forum for Teacher Educator Development (InFo-TED)- walking the talk

In 2013 a group of international teacher educators met at the AERA conference to discuss the lack of attention teacher educators as a professional group received from policy makers and...

“Honestly, I think it’s a horrendous knee-jerk reaction”: Politeness, superiority, assimilation and criticality: student teachers’ views on fundamental British values

In the wake of terror attacks in London and Manchester in 2017, concerns have been raised about the extent to which governmental strategies to combat terrorism are successful in preventing...

How technology shapes assessment design: Findings from a study of university teachers

As technology has become increasingly integrated into all aspects of university teaching, the tools and strategies available to support assessment have increased and evolved. Despite these...

Investigation of the potential for patient focus group meetings to be held in a virtual world

Figure 1: Two avatars meeting in the virtual world Second Life, in a virtual space owned by Imperial College London   Our study recently published in the British Journal of Educational...

The Missing Link? Brain and Body in early learning and development – what the research review does and doesn’t tell us

BERA Blog Special Issues: BERA/TACTYC

The early years education field has always emphasised the holistic nature of early development and learning despite the continued prevalence of separate subject- or development-based domains...

Early years as a career? Policy, practice and professionalism 2003-2017

BERA Blog Special Issues: BERA/TACTYC

In March 2017, the long-awaited Early Years Workforce Strategy for England was published by the DfE. It aims to put in place a number of measures to address some of the difficulties currently...

Giving a Voice to Mothers

BERA Blog Special Issues: BERA/TACTYC

My work on the Parenting chapter of the BERA/ TACTYC Review of the Early Years Literature triggered some questions that I felt compelled to further investigate. The literature that I accessed...