As a doctoral student, BERA’s Postgraduate Forum symposium on research methodology seemed the perfect opportunity to present the methodological aspects of my research to a critical audience...
How are successful schools measured? By being judged ‘1’ by Ofsted? By excellent SATs or A-level results in a single year? By being popular with parents and having buoyant admissions? No. It...
Research Seminar - Simon Gibbons In this seminar Simon will draw on two related research projects, linked by a focus on the history of the development of English teaching, curriculum and...
This blog coincides with a special issue of Management in Education about research methods for educational leadership. This brings together six papers, resulting from two seminars jointly held by...
‘Collages manage to satisfy all of my madness. I’m able to make these obsessive things but then I’m also able to make these very strong statements… in my mind they have a very strong...
The BERA Postgraduate Forum research symposium I attended provided me with the opportunity to present my work in a supportive and critically constructive environment, providing me with invaluable...
The issues of curriculum, pedagogy and assessment are pivotal to shaping our educational system. These concepts have been constructed, reconstructed, deconstructed and contested over many decades....
On 18 May 2016, a review of education and training in prisons by Dame Sally Coates praised the work of many prison educators, yet its recommendations infer that many of their practices are...
Though I didn’t realise it at the time, studying while working in the early years sector marked the emergence of my research interests. I was a practitioner at the forefront of new government...
Thank you to everyone who has submitting an abstract for the BERA conference. We have received a phenomenal amount of submissions. Don't forget you can also apply for a bursary. The deadline for...
Venue: Technocentre, Coventry University Speaker: Prof. Jos Beelen, Visiting Professor, The Hague University of Applied Sciences Video record of the lecture: We are pleased to...
This blog draws on an important piece of research published by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) in England in 2015: Making the Best use of Teaching Assistants (Sharples, Webster and...