This series of reports presents the findings and recommendations of four research projects funded by BERA’s 2024/25 Small Grants Fund (SGF).  The funding aimed to support research focussing on the professional learning for teacher educators within the following four areas: 

• Teacher education for a multilingual/multicultural world 
• Teacher education for a digital world
• Teacher education for resilience/wellbeing
• Teacher education for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

The four reports

Valuing dis/agreement: Teacher education and democracy
Joanna Haynes, Magda Costa Carvalho, Claire Cassidy, Rose-Anne Reynolds & Kathrin Paal

Teaching to transform the curriculum (T2TC): Building frameworks for racial literacy
Camille London-Miyo, Richard Hall, Natasha Boyce, Sherilyn Pereira & Aderonke Omotosho

The wellbeing of student teachers: Co-created guidance for initial teacher education providers
Aimee Quickfall, Jonathan Glazzard, Michelle Jayman & Anthea Rose

Promoting socially just mathematics teaching practices: Exploring and enhancing the role of teacher educators
Pete Wright

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About the Small Grants Fund 

Through the Small Grants Fund, BERA awards funding annually to research projects on a different pressing theme each year, with the intention that each project will:

• make important contributions to the discipline by contributing to and leading current debates
• develop research capacity by involving postgraduate students and early career researchers
• receive applications from and involving practitioners and policymakers as well as academic researchers.

Find out more about the BERA Small Grants Fund here