BERA Blog post #1,000
It hardly seems possible, six years after its creation of the BERA Blog, that this is its one-thousandth post. The brainchild of BERA CEO Nick Johnson, in 2015 the BB set out to provide...
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Convenor
Rowena Passy, Dr
Senior Research Fellow at Plymouth University
Rowena Passy is a senior research fellow at the Plymouth Institute of Education, University of Plymouth. She spent most of her life with horses until discovering academia, and now enjoys combining her love of outdoor activities and pursuits with her research and teaching.
She has worked at the National Foundation for Educational Research as well as at Exeter, Leicester, and De Montfort Universities. She has developed a wide range of research interests in the field of education, including school leadership and management, education policy, outdoor learning, initial teacher training, and teacher retention.
Rowena Passy's contributions
Editorial: Wellbeing and being outdoors
Over the past year, as we have been forced to slow down and restrict our activities because of the Covid-19 pandemic, it is has become apparent just how important it is for our health and...
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Great Mistakes in Education Policy: And how to avoid them in the future
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Great Mistakes in Education Policy: And how to avoid them in the future
In their book, ‘Great Mistakes in Education Policy – And how to avoid them in the future’, Ruth Lupton (University of Manchester) and Debra Hayes (University of Sydney) argue that despite...
About the blog
This blog was established in 2015 to provide research informed content on key educational issues in an accessible manner. The aim is to produce and promote articles that attract policymakers,...
BERA SIG Convenors
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Educational Research and Educational Policy-Making
For various historical, political and epistemological reasons (which are well-documented in a range of sources), ‘evidence-based policy’ is not a neutral descriptor but instead seems to have...
