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The importance of being: exploring the interplay between personal and professional identity for Lesbian & Gay teachers

This presentation highlights the initial findings of a small-scale project examining the experiences of 13 self-selecting gay and lesbian teachers working in Primary and Secondary schools in...

A whole school approach to mental health and wellbeing

If you were the founding headteacher of a brand new school and had a clean slate, what would you differently? Hannah Wilson started 2 brand new schools in South Oxfordshire - Aureus School and...

A Curriculum for Wellbeing: A British Curriculum Forum conference

Update (Friday 13 March): unfortunately the conference previewed in this blog, which was to be held on Saturday 14 March, has been postponed. To be kept updated on its rearrangement please email...

Teaching professionalism in Norway and Brazil: Why combine concepts and compare countries?

This blog post will address two questions: When studying the teaching profession, why combine the concepts of teacher autonomy and teacher agency? And why compare such different national settings...

A real, immersive and purposeful curriculum

In a primary school context of nine academies in the West Midlands, our curriculum framework is underpinned by theories from John Dewey’s 20th-century approach to project-based learning (PBL)....

BERA Bites, issue 5: Research used or produced in schools: Which informs practitioners most?

BERA Bites

The BERA Bites series presents selected articles from the BERA Blog on key topics in education, presented in an easily printable and digestible format to serve as teaching and learning...

Curriculum orientations and the inclusion of immigrant parents

‘Curriculum is – or should be – at the heart of educational practice’, wrote Mark Priestley and Stavroula Philippou on BERA Blog earlier in 2019. What is taught in school, how curriculum...

Spring 2020

Decolonising the curriculum: Transnational perspectives  Research Intelligence issue 142 From the Rhodes Must Fall campaign at the universities of Cape Town and (subsequently Oxford) to the...

Video art as digital play for young children

In the 21st century, it seems that digital play is an inevitable experience for young children. Studies have claimed that digital devices can support children’s learning (Falloon, 2013) in...

Learning from variation

BCF Curriculum Investigation Grant Research Reports

How can variation theory can be applied to the use of manipulatives to support understanding of early number? This report makes an important contribution to the existing literature on how to teach...

BCF Curriculum Investigation Grant Research Reports

Here you will find the public-facing final reports from each successful BCF Curriculum Investigation Grant, detailing key findings from the research project and how these findings might be taken...

Local language, school and community: Curricular innovation towards closing the attainment gap

BCF Curriculum Investigation Grant Research Reports

An investigation of how schools can, by working in and with local languages and dialects, raise pupils' educational attainment, cultural awareness and self-esteem.