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Arthur Chapman

Associate Professor in History Education

Dr Arthur Chapman is Associate Professor in History Education at the UCL Institute of Education and a member of the research team at the UCL Centre for Holocaust Education. He is a fellow of the...

Rille Raaper

Rille Raaper is an associate professor in Sociology of Higher Education and a deputy director of research in the School of Education at Durham University. Rille specialises in student identity,...

SERA Conference 2020

To mark the 2020 conference SERA has organised three online events on Monday 16th, Wednesday 18th and Thursday 19th November 2020.  The theme for the week of events is:  Education and...

Rethinking class size: The complex story of impact on teaching and learning

The enduring argument over class size is one of the most contested in education. The argument is between many teachers and practitioners who feel that class size makes a big difference to teaching...

Nominations for Fellowship of AcSS

BERA is looking for suggestions and nominations for members to become Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences. As an accredited learned society, we are entitled to make nominations that have the...

It’s not about ‘delay’, it’s about equality: The language of the summer-born admissions policy

While children in England are invited to join reception in the September following their fourth birthday, the child will not reach compulsory school age (CSA) until the term following their fifth...

RSA Winter Conference

12-13 November 2020, London, UK For more information click here

RSA President’s Event

12 November 2020, London, UK

Entanglements of writing and matter: Towards less human-centred practices

Over the last decade, the humanities and social sciences have become increasingly interested in the nonhuman (animals, plants, non-living objects) as having agentic and performative capacities. By...

Khadija Mohammed

Senior Lecturer, School of Education and Social Sciences

My own experiences as both a Teacher and Teacher Educator, working with young children in primary school, encourage me to consider ways to enthuse learners to participate as socially and morally...

Jessica Tawn

Jessica Tawn is a PhD research student in the School of Education at the University of Birmingham. Her master’s dissertation explored compulsory school age reception admission for summer-born...

Curriculum integration can support the development of powerful knowledge in education

On 20th March 2015, an article published by the Independent (Garner, 2015) claimed that Finnish schools had scrapped school subjects and replaced them with topics. Ever since then Finland has been...