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Dr Emma Clarke teaches on undergraduate and postgraduate primary initial teacher education courses, having taught in mainstream primary schools for almost 18 years. Her interests include research methodologies, approaches to managing behaviour, and challenging behaviour in schools. Her PhD considered the tensions experienced by teaching assistants in mainstream primary schools when managing behaviour and she has been involved in research considering wellbeing for teacher trainees in Europe and continues to research in this area. She has presented her research nationally and internationally, as well as publishing both in books and peer-reviewed journals. She was a recipient of funding in the recent round of BERA small grants ‘Learning for All’ to examine girls’ experiences of being at risk of permanent exclusion using visual methods.
This blog considers some of the issues highlighted by existing research on girls’ exclusion from schooling and the challenges of beginning research in this area. Although boys are three times...
Continue reading blog postBERA is funding six new small grants in 2022/23 under the title “Learning for all”. These grants support projects which examine educational provision in its widest sense that seeks to provide...
Newly qualified teachers (NQTs) have arguably always had tough challenges to overcome; two in every five NQTs experience mental health problems (Education Support Network, 2018). Challenges cited...
Continue reading blog postRegistration for this event has now closed, please events@bera.ac.uk if you'd like to register. #BERA_Wellbeing Online event – pre-registration essential The wellbeing of students and...
The wellbeing of students and teachers is now an educational policy priority. Increasingly, teachers are held responsible for the wellbeing of their students and school managers are expected to...
The PGCE route into teaching has the lowest retention rate (Allen et al., 2016). Many students embarking on a PGCE are warned about the challenges of the course, as the following blog extract...
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