English in Education – Curriculum and Assessment
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The ambiguities of knowledge, expertise and purpose
In a recent BERA blog, ‘The neglect of practice’ (14 December 2018; see also Hordern 2018), Jim Hordern argued that we need to consider not just what teachers do when they teach, but what...
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Curriculum development through professional enquiry: Developments in Wales
Since the publication of Graham Donaldson’s report in 2015 (Donaldson, 2015) and the adoption of its recommendations by the Welsh Government, pioneer schools across Wales have been taking the...
Continue reading blog postRethinking sex and relationship education in the age of #MeToo
In February 2017, the UK government announced that it would introduce legislation to make age-appropriate sex and relationship education (SRE) compulsory within English schools. The objective of...
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Unthinkable, unfundable and unknowable: The ‘evidence void’ on making science accessible to pupils with learning disabilities
The question of how, in an age of performativity, we will be enabled to undertake any research other than that which promises to be productive in the short term is becoming increasingly pressing....
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Re-imagining a curriculum for teacher knowledge
A BCF Event for schools, colleges and universities What do teachers do? How we answer this question has implications for what they need to know and how, where and when they learn to be...
Promoting spatial ability skills through educational robotics: Are they equally effective for girls and boys?
Promoting spatial ability skills through educational robotics: Are they equally effective for girls and boys? Over the past few decades there has been a lively debate about the quality of...
Continue reading blog postKnowledge entitlement or misguided policy? The new multiplication tables check for primary children
In 2020, the UK government will introduce a multiplication tables check for primary school children aged 8–9 in England. ‘Times tables’ are a contentious issue because they represent a lot...
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Inequality of pedagogy in English schools: How significant is it?
Addressing educational inequality has been a longstanding focus for educational research as well as for English education policy, yet the attainment gap between rich and poor remains constant...
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Spring 2019
Research Intelligence issue 138: Re-examining the curriculum This special issue – guest edited by Ruth Dann and Chris Hanley, convenors of BERA's Curriculum, Assessment and Pedagogy Special...
Helping teachers improve their use of computer games for student learning
Games have been used in schools since the 1970s. Currently, the games most commonly used in classrooms are ‘edutainment’ games such as Math Blaster (Boyle et al., 2016). These games are...
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Our ‘science capital’ research story
The ASPIRES/2 and Enterprising Science teams are delighted to be awarded the 2018 BERA Public Engagement and Impact Award, which reflects our sociological commitment to praxis and, specifically,...
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