Going Against the Grain
This session aims to encourage debate about the current state of educational studies as an academic field – its strengths, limitations, constraints and challenges. I use my own career as a...
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Internationalisation Webinar: What does an internationalised curriculum look like?
The panel consists of: Dr Craig Whitsed, Curtin University, Australia Dr Carine Ullom, Ottawa University, US Dr Krishna Bista, Morgan State University, US Dr Shyam Sharma, Stoney Brook...
Researching creative practices in schools
Our review of the CP archive showed a preponderance of case study research (Thomson, Coles, Hallewell, & Keane, 2014). Some of this used surveys, but almost all of it was interview (including...
Creativity: pros and cons of a quantitative research approach
This presentation will describe several research studies that have looked at characteristics of creative people, creative processes, and creative environments. For each empirical study, the...
Anna Craft Memorial Lecture: Possibility thinking about the future of creativity
In this talk, I will use Anna Craft’s possibility thinking to explore how we can find new positive outcomes to explore for creativity research. So much current work looks at how creativity may...
Beyond words: Materiality and the play of things
Tim Ingold’s (2013) account of the art of inquiry begins with the relation between thinking and making, a relation that ‘allow[s] knowledge to grow from the crucible of our practical and...
Race discrimination, cultural inequality, and the politics of knowledge in England
From the outside, one might assume England’s education system is tolerant of diversity, welcoming and pluralistic. The truth is, to some extent it is. There are several thousand teachers from...
Transition to school: Opportunities, expectations, aspirations and entitlements
In Australia, as in many parts of the world, early childhood education has become the subject of much scrutiny, generating a great deal of attention in research, policy and practice. With...
Education, civic virtue and populism
A consistent finding of research on education’s civic effects is that it fosters liberalism, respect, tolerance, and social responsibility. The growth of educational participation, according to...
Tea and the Queen? Researching the enactment of the British values policy in schools
This presentation seeks to make both theoretical and empirical contributions. With regard to the former, I consider issues of citizenship, belonging and values in relation to contemporary...
Becoming and being an early career researcher – identity, practice and serendipity
Early career researchers have, until relatively recently, been invisible in the eyes of policy makers, with very little attention, historically, paid to their induction and professional...
Educational research: which way now?
BERA was established 43 years ago, in 1974, at the height of the postwar expansion of education, and at the onset of a long period of controversy and reform of education that has continued ever...
