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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...

COVID-19 and BERA

BERA is closely monitoring the developments around the coronavirus (COVID-19) situation. Our position as a charity is to do our best to continue the delivery of our activities in as safe and...

COVID-19 and BERA

BERA is closely monitoring the developments around the coronavirus (COVID-19) situation. Our position as a charity is to do our best to continue the delivery of our activities in as safe and...

Usha Goswami

Prior to moving to Cambridge in January 2003, Usha Goswami was Professor of Cognitive Developmental Psychology at the Institute of Child Health, University College London. She received her Ph.D....

Educational Technology – SIG Convenor vacancy

Call for SIG Convenor The purpose of the Educational Technology SIG is to provide a meeting place for BERA members interested in the application and impact of new technologies in education across...

Ian Menter

University of Oxford

Ian is former President of BERA, 2013-2015. At OUDE he was Director of Professional Programmes and led the development of the Oxford Education Deanery. Before moving to Oxford, Ian was Professor...

2020 BERA Council Elections

Following a very competitive election, we are delighted to announce the outcome of the 2020 BERA Elections. The election for Council was highly competitive and three candidates have been...

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...

Collaborative composition and touchscreen technology in the classroom

The opportunity to make music together is an important strand of every child’s education, fuelling creative, expressive and social development. A recent report by the Musicians’ Union (2019)...

Ana Lucia Lennert da Silva

Ana Lucia Lennert da Silva is a PhD candidate at the Department of Social and Educational Sciences, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences. Her interests concern studying education from the...

Literacy and Language – SIG Convenor vacancy

Call for SIG Convenor Members of this SIG have interests in exploring the relationship between language and literacy and work in related fields, such as cultural studies and multi-modality (the...

Tender: A literature review to understand the structures and processes that influence research activities in the UK

One strand of BERA’s work historically has been a role in charting the state of educational research in the UK. For example, the BERA Observatory (Oancea and Mills, 2015) which was an initiative...