Early childhood education and care (ECEC) is internationally recognised as a social investment strategy for supporting parental employment and providing the foundations to children’s...
This Seminar is the 4th in the Research Commission, Competing Discourses of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC): Tensions, Impacts and Democratic Alternatives across the UK’s four...
British Educational Research Journal (BERJ) is pleased to announce the top cited papers published between 2018 and 2019. The symbolic violence of setting: A Bourdieusian analysis of mixed...
This presentation will explore some of the historical policy developments that have shaped the current Early childhood workforce in Northern Ireland and will propose the radical structural reform...
Finding ways to support and identify children and young people (CYP) who self-harm is an important social issue. Incidences of self-harm in CYP in the UK have risen in the last 20 years, with the...
Supporting children’s mental health and wellbeing in schools Last year’s State of the nation 2019 report (DfE, 2019a) on children and young people’s wellbeing indicated that the majority...
The mental health and wellbeing of learners and teaching staff rank among some of the most pressing issues facing education as we enter a new decade. Growing rates of emotional distress among...
We are concerned here with the extent of mental wellbeing and, in particular, distress and other difficulties with wellbeing, and whether such difficulties continue as young people move from...
The mental health and wellbeing of both learners and teaching staff are among the most pressing issues facing education in the coming decade. This special issue of the BERA Blog presents a...
The Youth Mental Health First Aid in Schools programme (Youth MHFA) is a policy initiative intended to enable education practitioners to spot the signs of mental health issues in children and...
In the context of increasing demand for specialist mental health (MH) services, emphasis has been placed on school-based early intervention to prevent or de-escalate later MH issues. The case for...
Dr Josie Maitland is an ESRC-funded postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Brighton. She is a qualified teacher with eight years’ teaching experience, both in mainstream and special...