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The self-improving school system from the classroom out

When thought about at the level of the school or classroom, the self-improving school system involves teachers collaboratively engaging in evidence-informed practice to improve teaching and...

Valuing curriculum research: Taking a second look

In an age of research excellence assessment, what type of curriculum research is valued? The field of curriculum research is varied. There are scholars whose work is renowned internationally and...

Learning about learning and teaching through collaborative observation

Teaching excellence has been at the centre of debates about quality in English Higher Education (HE) in recent years. The introduction of the Teaching Excellence Framework has ratcheted up this...

Reflexivity in Educational Research: Challenges and Rewards for the Practitioner-Researcher

The growing popularity of the professional doctorate means that increasing numbers of practitioners are undertaking research in their own workplace. But what does it really mean to adopt this dual...

International Forum for Teacher Educator Development (InFo-TED)- walking the talk

In 2013 a group of international teacher educators met at the AERA conference to discuss the lack of attention teacher educators as a professional group received from policy makers and...

Practitioner Research in Mathematics Education (PRiME)

Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk for details of how to register onsite. Recent national initiatives, such as the Maths Hubs,...

Learning from the classroom – Practitioner research in mathematics education

Keynote speaker: Dr Alison Clark-Wilson (Institute of Education, University of LondonConvenors: Dr Alf Coles (University of Bristol), Dr d’Reen Struthers (Institute of Education, University of...

Developing a cohesive strategy for leading learning inside education?

I read Ian Potter’s blog post ‘Can we learn together?’ with interest having spoken to him at Belmas back in the Summer, on some of these issues. As a secondary school teacher who has worked...

Using evidence to inform policy and practice in teacher education and medical education

Research Commission: Cost, Value and Quality in Professional Learning: promoting economic literacy in medical and teacher education

Seminar 1: Using evidence to inform policy and practice in teacher education and medical education - 11th February 2016 Seminar 2: Understanding Cost, Value and Quality in professional...

An answer to the question of impact

In their recent Research Intelligence article Cain and Hayward posed questions related to ways in which educational research might inform teaching and learning and the implications of ‘impact’...

Can we learn together?

I wrote this whilst at BERA conference in Belfast and pondered the extent to which we can deepen the links between the school system and HEIs in England. From a school leader perspective I see a...

Structure of professional doctorate programmes

Is it any wonder that there is discussion about the structure of such programmes and what works best for those concerned? What is a doctoral programme? An advanced study of a defined topic? A...