Summer 2019
How inclusive of children are our educational research methods? Research Intelligence issue 139: Marking 30 years of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child This special issue of Research...
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Learning differently: new frontiers for community collaboration, agency and identity
This event is now fully booked. Please email events@bera.ac.uk if you would like to receive notice of changes in availability or similar events. Please join us for an interactive and dynamic...
Researchers drawing on teachers’ tools: Picturebooks with migrant learners
This blog post springs from a symposium I convened at BERA Conference 2018 entitled ‘Using creative methods to explore complex topics with young participants’. The symposium reflected my...
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A pedagogy of multiliteracies: Young children and multimodal learning with tablets
It has become increasingly apparent that being literate is a fundamental skill for citizens of the 21st century, just as it was in previous times, but also that new conceptualisations of what it...
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Regeneration, re-education and an anthem for peace: Insights for education from the re-education of Wilfred Owen during his 1917 convalescence at Craiglockhart War Hospital
From 26 June until early November 1917 2nd Lt Wilfred Owen of the Manchester Regiment convalesced at Craiglockhart War Hospital, Edinburgh. There is limited focus on Owen’s time in Scotland, but...
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How might teacher design help to support sustainable innovation in higher education?
Higher education around the world is facing the significant challenge of providing excellent teaching in response to complex, shifting pressures. Institutions must adapt to changing student...
Continue reading blog postConnecting the dots: painting, thesis and writing
I am a newly minted PhD from the School of Education and Professional Development at the University of Huddersfield. Two months after graduation, I am still coming to terms with the ‘what...
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Using tablets in free play: The implementation of the digital play framework in Greece
The integration of technology in the early years of education has followed a rocky path, with many obstacles to overcome. Together with research around the use of new technologies by young...
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Promoting children’s wellbeing, and right to make choices and engage in playful activities, in restricted environments through music and singing
In an era in which creative subjects are being squeezed in education, the role and value of the arts in health settings is increasingly acknowledged. The all-party parliamentary group on arts,...
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Reading for Pleasure: What next?
A one day research symposium UKLA, BERA and OU The symposium seeks to enable information sharing in order to advance understanding of the concept of reading for pleasure, and to provoke debate...
Exploring Contemporary Creative Practices Within and Beyond School
Registrations for this event are closed. Please email events@bera.ac.uk for more information. This one day conference on creative practices in and beyond schools seeks to look across settings...
The unspoken power of collage
‘Collages manage to satisfy all of my madness. I’m able to make these obsessive things but then I’m also able to make these very strong statements… in my mind they have a very strong...
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