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Pedagogies for the ‘dis-engaged’: Who gets what from arts education?

Not all young people get to access arts programmes. For those who do, the benefits have been widely recognised (de Roeper & Savelsberg, 2009; Catterall, 2012). However not all young people...

Sheine Peart

Lecturer

Sheine Peart is an Associate Professor in Access, Equality and Inclusion and is programme leader for the doctor of education. Her research interests include social justice and inclusion; and...

Vicky Duckworth

Reader in Education

Vicky’s research and teaching spans over two decades, in this time she has developed a national and International reputation for research in Intergenerational Education and Literacy. As such,...

The language that affirms gendered violence in schools

Those who study and work within education know that it is not just the explicit, intentional content that is taught in schools and that results in learning. Moment-to-moment transfers of meaning...

Connecting and the Curriculum: Reflections from Northern Ireland on joining the dots

As a teacher educator in Northern Ireland I was privileged to reflect about connecting learning, connecting times and cultures and, not least, connecting people, at the recent ‘Re-imagining a...

Towards an understanding of curricular justice: A provocation

There are a number of premises that underpin this think piece about ‘reimagining a curriculum for social justice’. They include the assumptions that we need an education system with broad...

The impact of the prevent duty on schools: What does the evidence tell us?

The UK government has become influential in the field of countering violent extremism (CVE), and Kundnani and Hayes (2018) document how its legislation and policy framework has been exported...

Opening Pathways from Critical Research to Policy

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. In 2015 BERA critical education researchers took a...

Summer 2019

How inclusive of children are our educational research methods? Research Intelligence issue 139: Marking 30 years of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child This special issue of Research...

Challenging consumerism through education as human development

The culture of transforming everything into products to be ‘consumed by the market’ is manifesting itself as a global pathology. This trend is destroying longstanding communities of practice...

Exploring senior leaders’ experiences of off-rolling in mainstream secondary schools in England

Ofsted defines off-rolling as   ‘the practice of removing a pupil from the school roll without a formal, permanent exclusion or by encouraging a parent to remove their child from the...

Transformative pedagogy in teacher education: Lessons from PE teacher educators

Over the last few years and throughout my PhD I have focussed on teaching for equity and diversity to improve the social ills that plague our society through my subject matter: physical education....