Last year BERA celebrated its 40th Anniversary in London, and this year’s annual conference in Belfast promises to be stimulating and invigorating with an emphasis on networking, exchanging...
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In this blog I want to examine why education is both tedious and yet fascinating as a subject. Where does boredom about education come from? I know it creeps up and silently closes one’s...
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Services for young children and their families have held a prominent place on international policy agendas for decades and have seen remarkable transformations of the underlying concept of what...
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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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