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Investigation of the potential for patient focus group meetings to be held in a virtual world

Figure 1: Two avatars meeting in the virtual world Second Life, in a virtual space owned by Imperial College London   Our study recently published in the British Journal of Educational...

Transformational Further Education: Empowering People & Communities

Drawing on the theme of transformation, the editorial blogs provide us with lenses to further probe different dimensions of transformation. Professor Vini Lander and Dr Francis Farrell’s timely...

Narrative Inquiry and the study of social systems: Summer School at Klaipėda University

Colleagues and international visitors are invited to participate in prof. dr. Ivor Goodson’s (University of Brighton, UK) seminar 'Narrative Inquiry and the study of social systems‘....

Practitioner Research in Mathematics Education (PRiME)

Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk for details of how to register onsite. Recent national initiatives, such as the Maths Hubs,...

Innovations in Teacher Development

Research Symposium at King’s College London in association with Teachers College, Columbia University and Teacher Education Exchange, 16-18 June 2017. Call for Papers If we accept that the...

Are we all ready in 2017?

The formalisation process which the review shows has been happening in Early Childhood Education, particularly since 2010, has moved into a new phase in 2016-17. The OECD has been considering a...

Play and Pedagogy

Carrying out the research for the section on Play and Pedagogy was a pleasure. This was because the field of play scholarship is extensive, international, multi-disciplinary and progressive in...

Giving a Voice to Mothers

My work on the Parenting chapter of the BERA/ TACTYC Review of the Early Years Literature triggered some questions that I felt compelled to further investigate. The literature that I accessed...

The Missing Link? Brain and Body in early learning and development – what the research review does and doesn’t tell us

The early years education field has always emphasised the holistic nature of early development and learning despite the continued prevalence of separate subject- or development-based domains...

Early years as a career? Policy, practice and professionalism 2003-2017

In March 2017, the long-awaited Early Years Workforce Strategy for England was published by the DfE. It aims to put in place a number of measures to address some of the difficulties currently...

Opportunity – writer/editor wanted for our Research Commission reports

During 2015/6 BERA funded three Research Commissions to identify and explore topics of concern for the discipline and its research communities. The Research Commissions were asked to: identify...