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Tomorrow never knows: AIE a discourse of hype

Artificial Intelligence in educational research and practice

Much hype around artificial intelligence in education (AIE) is crystallised in the language. This was demonstrated emphatically in the ‘discombobulated’ tones of a working paper from Hamilton,...

Jiarui Xie

Jiarui Xie is currently a doctoral student of Learning Technologies at the Ohio State University and a graduate research assistant at the Center on Education and Training for Employment, working...

Robbert Smit

Robbert Smit is an educational researcher and lecturer at the University of Teacher Education, St Gallen, Switzerland. His research focuses on developing and testing mathematics and science...

Suparna Bagchi

Suparna Bagchi is a final-year doctoral student at the Plymouth Institute of Education, University of Plymouth. She worked there as a Doctoral Teaching Assistant from 2019 to 2022. Suparna’s...

What could we be educating for in primary education?

We know that the primary timetable is overcrowded, testing is embedded in almost every year of a child’s primary schooling (Wyse et al., 2022), and expectations of what teachers must cover grow...

Engaging with educational policy in difficult times

In December 1987, Secretary of State for Education Kenneth Baker summed up the purpose of the Education Reform Bill as ‘standards, freedom and choice’. Underpinning the bill was the belief...

The BERA Blog team to expand with three new editors

As the highly successful BERA Blog continues to grow in output and readership, we are delighted to announce that we are expanding its editorial team. In the coming months, the BERA Blog will...

The complexity of the relations between policy, research and practice in primary education

I would like to believe that our national policymakers for primary school education seek out the relationship between policy, research and practice. I’d like to think that to achieve this they...

The politics of reforming secondary education

The biggest mistake of the 1997–2010 Labour governments was the failure in 2004/5 to implement Mike Tomlinson’s report on the future of the secondary education curriculum and assessment. In...

Educating for sustainable futures in secondary education

What are we educating for in secondary education? In a world where if we want to know something we can just ‘google it’, and artificial intelligence can generate essays, presentations or...

Howard Scott

Howard Scott is a senior lecturer in post-compulsory education at the University of Wolverhampton. He works in initial teacher education and his research involves technology-enhanced learning in...

A vital role for further education: Educating extra-ordinary young people

This blog post focuses on the overlooked and precarious middle in the English education system: further education and the young people who participate in it. In Helena Kennedy’s words, further...