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Prioritising micro-level experiences of schooling: A policy prospect for addressing inequality in basic education access?

Ghanaian and Sub-Saharan African (SSA) governments are successfully implementing universal policy solutions to expand basic-school opportunities for children. Yet, a vital component of the basic...

A Freirean resistance: Conscientização against the right-wing Escola sem Partido movement in Brazil

Over the past decade, attempts to micromanage teachers’ work within classrooms while also limiting their freedom of speech have increased and become a major disruption to Brazilian educators....

Myth busting our curriculum: Enabling all to achieve

The island of Zanzibar where I was born was famous – or infamous – on two accounts: clove plantations and slavery. From the 17th century until 1909, spice plantations were worked by Black...

Lost in translation: The translation of Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child into educational legislation

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) (UN, 1989) includes 54 articles outlining rights and freedoms for children. The UNCRC provides formal acknowledgement of the rights...

Ethics-in-practice in fragile contexts: The value of the CERD ethical appraisal framework

Educational research in fragile contexts At a time when unprecedented numbers of people across the world are experiencing forced migration, there is an urgent and critical imperative to develop...

Implementing citizenship education in a post-conflict society: Lessons from Northern Ireland

Citizenship education is intended to foster civic and political participation by encouraging students to critically reflect on and challenge established attitudes, values and behaviours (Niens,...

Curriculum reform and inequality: The challenges facing Wales

Wales is in the process of undertaking a major overhaul of its national curriculum. Until recently, the curriculum largely resembled that put in place by the 1988 Education Reform Act. The new...

International students and Covid-19: What is the current advice?

The pandemic that has gripped the UK has meant that uncertainty becoming central to our way of life. With borders closed, migration curtailed and social distancing policies in place, this...

Inclusive Education in Central Asia

Link to event recording British Educational Research Association Comparative and International Education Special Interest Group (CIE SIG) in collaboration with the Kazakhstan PhD Association in...

Inclusive Education in Central Asia

British Educational Research Association Comparative and International Education Special Interest Group (CIE SIG) in collaboration with the Kazakhstan PhD Association in the UK presents: Doctoral...

Digital masters? Reflecting on the readiness of students and staff for digital learning

Covid-19, education and educational research

If we assume that necessity really is the mother of invention, then the problems of delivery that arose when the Covid-19 virus crisis hit UK higher education represented a golden opportunity for...

Global Perspectives: Educational Leadership

This event has now been postponed. To be kept updated on when this will be reschedule for, please email events@bera.ac.uk. The University of Worcester, in association with the British Educational...