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...
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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...
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...
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Editorial: What are we educating for? Introducing the BERA Blog Special Issue
This BERA Blog special issue started out as a seminar series in which we brought together policymakers, educational practitioners and researchers to discuss what we are educating for across the...
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What are we educating for? Education policymaking in England
Education represents no less than our vision of society, and the people in it. It represents values. How education policy is made tells us about whose values are prioritised, what sources of...
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What are we educating for?
Although it has always been significant, the question of what we are educating for is now particularly important. There is growing consensus that the educational challenges we face require...
What are we educating for in vocational education?
In this blog post, I focus on what is distinctive about vocational education. What makes vocational education different and why is this important? First, and most critically, vocational education...
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What are we educating for in higher education?
It might have been easier to identify the purpose of higher education in the early part of the 20th century, when the few students who went to university came from a narrow demographic background...
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Early education and childcare: A tension to be managed?
The recent announcement in England about extending free childcare for working parents seemed like very good news. The offer, to be realised over two to three years, included free childcare of 30...
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Problems with a transactional view of higher education
In the past two or three decades there has been a fundamental shift from seeing higher education in essentially educative terms to seeing it almost exclusively in transactional terms. Young people...
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What are we educating for in early childhood education?
The overall question of this BERA Blog special issue can be understood in two different ways: what is being done now at the current time by educators (what are we educating for), and it can also...
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