Videos and presentations from BERA Member events, as well as podcasts and more.
Presentations and recordings are correct as of the date they were created.
The past two decades have witnessed a remarkable rise of the language of learning in education and in our lives more generally. Not only is it claimed that we live in an age of learning; we are...
Promises of enhanced ‘productivity’ via the automation of teaching have been with us since the early days of digital education, sometimes embraced by teachers and institutions, and sometimes...
Children and young people are growing up in contexts which are politically complex, often exacerbated by conflict or societal divisions. Yet, whilst it is generally accepted that schools have a...
Education in contemporary India is encumbered by the convergence between forces of economic globalisation and conservative ideology. Capitalising on the post-enlightenment social-subjective split,...
This BERA presidential address considers how knowledge, education and research interact in practice, as the institutional structures that support them change. Many of the efforts at large-scale...
Over the past decade there has been an ongoing debate in the UK regarding the notion of evidence-based practice as applied to education. Mirroring debates in the US and elsewhere, concerns have...
In the last decade, there has been renewed interest in how policy makers in various fields use research in their decision making. Researchers wonder why some research ends up being influential in...
Geography reveals just how divided we have become. There are places from which it appears almost impossible to succeed educationally and others from where it appears very hard to fail. On any...
In this talk, Sugata Mitra will take us through the origings of schooling as we know it, to the dematerialisation of institutions as we know them. Thirteen years of experiments in children’s...
In our 40th anniversary year, BERA will be hosting our inaugural Annual Lecture. We are delighted that Pasi Sahlberg, will present a lecture on: “Facts, true facts and research in improving...