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The BERA Blog: Highlights of 2021

BERA Blog end of year highlights

Yuletide greetings and festive cheer to all our readers and authors, wherever you may be. In these challenging times we thank all of you for your continued support of and engagement with the BERA...

Rent strikes and the continuing relevance of Paulo Freire at 100

Against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic, student rent strikes took place in many universities in England. Lockdowns and moves to online learning meant that students were at times required to...

Does money motivate teachers?

Labour economists have long been interested in investigating how wages affect worker productivity. Specifically, does paying a worker a higher wage make them work harder, or more productively, in...

Developing education research capacity: What can government do?

In developing the National Strategy of Educational Research and Enquiry (NSERE), the Welsh government conducted several evidence reviews to understand how to foster educational research capacity...

Childhood bereavement: A call for national policy that considers young people’s views

This blog reflects on a study recently published in Review of Education that investigated teachers' perspectives on supporting bereaved children in British primary schools (Abraham-Steele &...

Education: The State of the Discipline. Systematic scoping review of the literature

A systematic scoping review of the literature on the structures & processes that influence research activities in the UK

Autumn 2021

International perspectives on the curriculum Implications for teachers & schools Research Intelligence issue 148 The internationalisation of curriculum, and the effects of globalisation and...

Thinking like a teacher: Is the early career framework the answer to early career teachers’ prayers?

It’s a declaration that every teacher educator has heard from their trainees: ‘I’ve passed all the teaching standards so now I am a teacher!’ The current structure of teacher education...

SENCOs, crisis planning in schools and the international problem of ‘off rolling’ or ‘grey exclusions’

In a newly published study (Done & Knowler, 2021a) we investigated the strategic leadership role of special educational needs coordinators (SENCOs) in planning for Covid-19 with particular...

Exploring the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the health & wellbeing of learners with autism

Education & Covid-19: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports

Documenting an explorative qualitative study involving 20 learners with autism aged 14–19 based in the West Midlands region of England, this report considers the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic...

High standards, not high stakes

An alternative to SATs that will transform England’s testing & school accountability system in primary education & beyond

Book seminar – Exploring Teacher Recruitment and Retention: contextual challenges from international perspectives

Exploring Teacher Recruitment and Retention: contextual challenges from international perspectives, edited by SIG convenors Tanya Ovenden-Hope and Rowena Passy, has been well received and is...