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The power of culture in shaping early childhood curricula: Insights from the curriculum hybridisation model

Culture encompasses the shared beliefs, customs and artifacts of a group or society, shaping the way of life of a community. Local culture refers to the specific cultural practices unique to a...

A pressing need to align the business studies curriculum with current attitudes

This blog post addresses the issue that, if the school curriculum is believed to be a robust framework for the learner to make sense of their world, then the General Certification of School...

Research by teachers for teachers: the British Curriculum Forum showcase

Individual papers presented under the theme Curriculum, Assessment and Pedagogy Chairs: Gerry Czerniawski, Sarah Seleznyov IN THIS SESSION Can a whole-school focus on celebrating diversity...

BERA Conference 2023

12 September 2023 to 14 September 2023Aston University/ Conference Aston

The BERA Conference 2023 was held on the 12th-14th September 2023 at Conference Aston/Aston University. Keynote speakers included: Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith. The conference ended with three...

Artificial Intelligence in educational research and practice

While Artificial Intelligence (AI), as an academic discipline, has been with us since the 1950s, knowledge of AI’s impact on formal education and all its stakeholders is in its infancy. To plug...

Does environmental activism have a place within education?

BERA Conference 2023

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns that the pace and scale of current action to limit global warming is inadequate – but that urgent climate action can secure a liveable...

What makes students curious about science?

BERA Conference 2023

‘It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of enquiry’, Einstein is reported to have said. Given...

The grass ceiling: Contextualising English rural/urban educational outcomes

The traditional narrative of urban–rural educational disadvantage is that urban pupils do less well in the English exam system. Decontextualised data (as exemplified in table 1 across different...

Musicianship for key stage 1 teachers

Learning for all: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports

Teaching generalist primary teachers to teach classroom music

Learning for all: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports

This series of reports presents the findings and recommendations of six research projects funded by BERA’s 2022/23 Small Grants Fund (SGF) on the theme ‘learning for all’. The projects...

Food banks in schools

Learning for all: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports

Exploring the impact on children’s learning

Concepts for climate change within secondary science

It is widely understood that climate change is among the greatest challenges facing humanity, and that knowledge of climate change should play a key role in the curriculum. As Singh (2021) writes,...