The BERA Blog was established in 2015 to provide research-informed content on key educational issues in an accessible manner.
I began decolonising curriculum knowledge 25 years ago. The tragic murder of the Black British teenager Stephen Lawrence in 1993 was the catalyst of my activism in education, research, teaching...
Continue reading blog postLanguage teachers use a variety of strategies while teaching. The focus and choices around such strategies range from pedagogical reasons and language development, to concerns around students’...
Continue reading blog postAs educators, we know that a child’s home environment is a vital contributory factor towards their cognitive and social development. Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory (1979)...
Continue reading blog postIn England, as with so many settings around the globe, researchers have long-debated how concepts of racism interplay with education, whether at the systemic or classroom level (see for example...
Continue reading blog postA transatlantic perspective on theorising education reveals that the academic study of educational phenomena has developed differently within various contexts (Biesta, 2022). In some...
Continue reading blog postAs researchers, we have an ethical responsibility to recognise the potential impact our background and beliefs have on the decisions we make when conducting research. As early career researchers...
Continue reading blog postLearner-centred pedagogy (LCP) has been introduced in numerous countries around the world, usually as a response to the perceived lack of effectiveness of traditional ‘teacher-centred’...
Continue reading blog postDeveloped countries have plunged into an intelligent era, while Ghana and many sub-Saharan African countries are still taking baby steps towards modernisation. It’s nearly two decades since...
Continue reading blog postThis blog is based on research, conducted in 2021, which explored the concept of ‘ethnic capital’ through interviews with seven British Kashmiri academics whose qualifications ranged between...
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