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Filling the leaky bucket: Teacher workload and wellbeing in Tennessee

The United States is experiencing a shortage of teachers, and the issue is amplified among those who serve vulnerable student populations (see for example Brunsting et al., 2023). In response,...

‘Parents are clients and students are the product’: Secondary English teachers’ workload as moral injury

Teacher workload and its contribution to insufficient recruitment and retention is a prominent theme in recent research on teachers’ work (Heffernan et al., 2022; Stacey et al., 2024). In...

Teaching on the edge: Teacher mental health and workload pressures in Wales

The landscape of teaching in Wales has changed significantly post-Covid-19, with educators reporting increased workload pressures, rising Additional Learning Needs demands (Conn & Hutt, 2020),...

Head, heart, hands and bay: Transforming education through place

This year's tenth anniversary of UK Children’s Mental Health week took the theme ‘Know Yourself, Grow Yourself’, focusing on resilience, confidence and wellbeing. Sharing this, the...

A tapestry of love and trust in ethnographic research with preschool children

Embarking on a PhD journey is often likened to navigating a sea of uncertainties and self-doubt (Woolston, 2021). However, my research on wellbeing with preschool children has been a...

We need a revolution in the primary curriculum for England, not an evolution

Curriculum: Theory, policy and practice

Like many headteachers in the state sector, I was excited in 2024 when the newly elected Labour government called for a curriculum and assessment review. Many of us in the primary phase (ages...

BERA celebrates 10 years of the BERA Blog

2025 marks 10 years of the BERA Blog, and we’re so proud of all that it has accomplished! Thank you to all those who have contributed to the Blog, whether as authors, editors, or readers. The...

Education staff wellbeing and workload: ‘Causing concern’ in the proposed Ofsted inspection toolkits

We, like many of you, have been very interested in Ofsted’s current consultation on proposed changes to their inspections in England, following the biggest consultation Ofsted has ever...

BERA Bites, issue 12: Education and the environment

BERA Bites

Today, in 2025, as an Earthly community, we face the ongoing triple planetary crises of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste. Across the UK, and in many other...

School health and wellbeing, and national education system reform in Wales

Curriculum: Theory, policy and practice

The Curriculum for Wales prioritises young people’s health and wellbeing, with a strategic aim for all children in Wales to be healthy and confident individuals. Following national roll-out,...

Reframing health and wellbeing in schools: As pedagogy and as teacher identity

Curriculum: Theory, policy and practice

Since the publication of WHO guidance in 1998, policymakers around the world have sought to include health promotion within education, with schools in many countries now taking a Health Promoting...

10 years of the BERA Blog

This blog series celebrates one decade of the BERA Blog, as an important and growing space to explore current and varied issues and questions of concern to the education community. To mark this...