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The fear factor: Children’s post-lockdown maths anxiety

Maths anxiety (MA) plays a role in educational disparities and the gender pay gap, yet it is not often addressed at the chalkface. Covid-induced school disruption may have made learning for...

Scientism, creationism and teaching about the nature of knowledge in schools

Given the harm associated with misinformation and the difficulties of working with complex real-life problems, are young people getting enough help in school with how to handle apparently...

Environmental protest & education: ‘Something’s gone wrong somewhere’

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the combustion of fossil fuels is the main contributor to rising atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations. Young people in England...

Taking notice: Children’s observation skills in nature as a basis for the development of early science education

‘In that earliest childhood, we get those invisible glasses through which we look at the world all our lives, and these glasses color our views.’ Lainšček, 2020 This beautiful quote from...

Editorial: Embedding sustainability education in practice

The global issues of climate change, protecting the environment, and ensuring equity and fairness for all continue to gain increasing prominence in everyday consciousness. The role of education to...

Integrating sustainable food in school systems

Food. It’s on the curriculum (in science, geography and design technology). It’s in our dinner halls. It’s in our playgrounds. It’s in our staffrooms. Food is everywhere. Delicious,...

Little fish, big streams: Early in-class maths ‘ability’ groups, early teacher judgements & primary schoolchildren’s later maths self-concept

Maths self-concept is important, not only for children’s experiences within education but because it is strongly related to subject choice, attainment and adult careers (Hansen & Henderson,...

Want to increase the take-up of STEM studies? Use carrots and flexibility, and target female students!

The need to encourage more youngsters to study science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is a recurrent theme in the educational policy debate, recently fuelled by environmental...

Winter 2020/2021

Digital technology in education Keeping pace with innovation Research Intelligence issue 145 Just as practitioners are struggling to keep up with the onslaught of new technologies entering the...

Practical science and pandemics

Covid-19, education and educational research

As the whole planet finds itself engulfed in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, it has become increasingly clear that the public needs to be well equipped with the skills to deal with scientific...

Editorial: Education for our planet and our future

I am fortunate to serve as one of two members of the BERA Council representing BERA members in Wales. This September, my fellow council members and I joined hundreds of delegates in attending the...

Natural language processing: A tool for microgenetic analysis

Artificial Intelligence in educational research and practice

Microgenetic analysis is a Vygotskyan educational research method that supports uncovering student sense-making activity during collaborative learning. Investigating learning using microgenetic...