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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,...

Designing online teaching curriculum to optimise learning for all students in higher education

Disruptions to learning and teaching in higher education during Covid-19 resulted in an abrupt shift towards online curricula (Salas-Pilco et al., 2022). This presented a range of concerns and...

Call for reviewers for landmark BERA & BCF publication

BERA and the British Curriculum Forum (BCF) are currently editing an exciting landmark publication, Curriculum in a changing world: 50 think pieces on education policy, practice, innovation &...

Developing key stage three assessment and feedback policy and practice: Recommendations for English secondary schools and teachers

Introduction Research on the importance of ‘feedback literacy’ (helping learners to understand and use their teachers’ feedback to improve their learning) and ‘student agency’ (where...

The teaching of problem solving in the school mathematics curriculum

Introduction School mathematics curricula across the world give ‘problem solving’ a high profile, but what exactly does ‘problem solving’ mean? Can it be taught; and, if it can, how can...

Household curricula during the Covid-19 pandemic: A collective biography

The lessons learned through Covid-19 school disruptions have amplified calls to envision education in ways that respond to unpredictable crises and finally redress educational inequities that have...

The easy option: How the Ruskin Speech has become a cipher for change in British education

When compared with educational systems around the world, Britain is notable for directing a high degree of ‘policy churn’ (that is, new initiatives emerging from central government) towards...

Call for papers. New perspectives on curriculum: Rethinking collaborative enquiry and teachers’ professional learning

A special issue of the Curriculum Journal to celebrate the 50th anniversary of BERA and the work of the British Curriculum Forum

Singing from the same hymn sheet? The Irish primary curriculum framework and convergences with global curricular trends

A significant milestone in Irish education history was achieved by the launching of the primary curriculum framework on 9 March 2023. Curriculum policy has been influenced by the prevailing...

Exploring open approaches to digital literacy

The notion of open educational resources (OER) was set out in the ‘Cape Town Open Education Declaration’ (2007), calling on educators, authors, publishers and institutions to release their...

The future of the artificially intelligent examination

Artificial Intelligence in educational research and practice

In education, it is common for people to talk about the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in assessment as something in the future, but it’s not – it’s here, and it’s been working away...