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Values first, goals second

I have a certain disquiet about the way we in higher education so often relate success and failure to the attainment or otherwise of goals. This focus on goals is present at all levels of...

Taking a year out? The ambitious teleology of higher education for cultivating a self-aware society

In the much-quoted Heraclitean aphorism, ‘the road up and down is one and the same’ (see for example Russell, 2004, p. 51), the pre-Socratic philosopher introduces a radical relativism and...

Empathy and engagement from a distance: Three learning delivery options in an uncharted terrain

My understanding of the uncharted terrain that ensued from January 2020 in China and March 2020 the world over is that human in-person mobility and interaction outside homes has been completely...

Does breaking up a video into parts improve learning?

With Covid-19 pushing video deeper into our pandemic-affected classrooms, studying multimedia design has taken on a new urgency. My recent article in the British Journal of Educational Technology...

Beyond Britishness: Learning to become agents of change

It is time for education and the school curriculum in countries with colonial pasts such as Britain to take the knee: to recognise that we – particularly the young – need to see ourselves as...

Anti-racist mathematics teacher education

On 28 August 2020 thousands marched through Washington DC to mark the 57th anniversary of the famous ‘I have a dream’ speech by Martin Luther King Jr. My research interests include anti-racism...

The fragilities in the English education system revealed by Covid-19, and how to put them right

Covid-19 has presented schools with a series of dilemmas since lockdown began, and continues to do so as schools seek to reopen to all their pupils. There have been few reliable sources of advice...

Knowledge, Curriculum, and Pedagogy: Universality and developmental difference across educational phases

Knowledge – its definition, conception, theorisation and implementation in policy and practice – is perhaps the most enduring and central element of curriculum research (e.g. Hirst,...

Children’s reflections on home education during the Covid-19 pandemic: Implications for the return to school

As school leaders plan the return to school following the global pandemic, it is crucial that their educational decisions are informed by research into the everyday realities of enforced home...

This is not a one-year blip: If we have to have a national assessment system, it shouldn’t be this one

This is not a one-year blip: If we have to have a national assessment system, it shouldn’t be this one Although calls for root-and-branch reform of our national examinations systems aren’t...

Principles into Practice: Supporting Practitioner Research – presentations

Principles into Practice: Supporting Practitioner Research

#principlesintopractice The presentations were drawn from those people who had either submitted abstracts on the topic for this event - Research into practice - or from the BERA strand that was...

Principles into Practice: Supporting Practitioner Research – Discussion Panel

Principles into Practice: Supporting Practitioner Research

#principlesintopractice Registration for this event has now closed, please email events@bera.ac.uk if you want to watch this online.   This is the opportunity to hear the Keynotes and...