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Education, #BlackLivesMatter and racial justice in the UK and beyond

This special issue of the BERA Blog addresses the BlackLivesMatter movement and questions of racial justice in both the UK and beyond, as we celebrate Black History Month amid deepening...

Cultural capital in non-White majority schools: A critical exploration of cultural ethos and pedagogy

Embodied cultural capital includes the artistic, religious, social and historical inheritance of non-White students. Cultural pedagogy and ethos is defined as the institution’s ‘official’...

Editorial: Education, #BlackLivesMatter and racial justice in the UK and beyond

The structural inequalities faced by Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities have been deepened by a decade of austerity. We are in the midst of a global pandemic and, following yet further...

Supporting quiet, shy or anxious Black, Asian and minority ethnic children with English as an additional language in the early years

Many articles that have been written in relation to the Black Lives Matter agenda, state that education is key to improving Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) children’s life chances...

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...

Alice Amegah

Alice Amegah is passionate about employer engagement in education, school-career guidance and counselling, skills development, and bridging the gender gap in science, technology, engineering and...

Manjinder Jagdev

Manjinder Jagdev has been a university teacher since 2006, working at the University of East Anglia and University of Sheffield as PGCE secondary lead mathematics tutor. She has contributed to...

Anna Olsson Rost

Dr Anna Olsson Rost is a senior lecturer on the PGCE Secondary (history) course at Manchester Metropolitan University, and she is also the Programme Lead for the Secondary PGCE Programme. She has...

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...

Yvonne Sinclair

Yvonne Sinclair is formerly a principal lecturer in Secondary Education at Manchester Metropolitan University working primarily on postgraduate initial teacher education (ITE) programmes,...

Diane Warner

Senior Lecturer

Dr Diane Warner is a senior lecturer in initial teacher education at Manchester Metropolitan University and co-convenor of BERA’s Race, Education and Ethnicity special interest group. She...

Parise Carmichael-Murphy

Parise is a PhD student in education at the Manchester Institute of Education, University of Manchester. Her interests are masculinities, intersectionality and identity in adolescence; her...