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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...
Continue reading blog postWe 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...
Continue reading blog postIn 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...
Continue reading blog postAs 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...
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...
Continue reading blog postThe 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...
Continue reading blog postWhat 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...
Continue reading blog postHoward 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...
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...
Continue reading blog postThis 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...
Continue reading blog postEducation 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...
Continue reading blog postAlthough 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...
