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With increasing criticism of the English government regarding over-testing and high pressure in state schools, alternatives to early years formal education, such as practitioners of the Montessori...
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For years, I had been running workshops in which I asked university teachers to reflect on their most powerful learning experiences, drawing out key principles of learning. We then compared...
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In September 2014 teachers in primary schools in England began the academic year with a new National Curriculum. In this statutory framework there is a detailed 70 page programme of study for...
Continue reading blog postThis event is now fully booked. Please email events@bera.ac.uk to be placed on the waiting list. This planned mid-year Joint BERA Educational Technology SIG/BJET Wiley networking event aims to...
Maltese society has for years been described as bilingual. The national language is Maltese and is spoken by 90% of the population aged 10 years and over (NSO, 2007) while English is the second...
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International trends indicate that internet access is now widespread in developed countries around the world including New Zealand. So you may be surprised to discover that not all New Zealanders...
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We are delighted to confirm that the following colleagues were elected to BERA Council: Dr Mhairi Beaton (University of Aberdeen) Professor Gabrielle Ivinson (Manchester Metropolitan...
BERA is looking for a new team of editors to take on the editorship of the British Educational Research Journal (BERJ). BERJ is an international peer reviewed journal publishing papers of...
The British Journal of Sociology of Education is a well-known and highly regarded international journal which both reflects and helps to define an important field of activity. The Executive...
Oscar Wilde is often quoted as suggesting that “there is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” Perhaps a corollary is that the worse...
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In the wake of the Westminster Bridge attack (22/3/2017), teachers around the country face pupils’ questions and attempt to offer explanations that they, like everyone else, are unprepared for....
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BERA commissioned Andrew Pollard, Chair of the Education sub-panel in the last REF exercise, to draft our response to the HEFCE consultation on the second Research Excellence Framework. This was...