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Time for educational researchers to take their place in the sun?

Covid-19, education and educational research

As recent posts on the BERA Blog have demonstrated, in the quiet chaos of lockdown a range of taken-for-granted assumptions (Courtney et al., 2020), competencies (Zhou & Wolstencroft, 2020) and...

Announcement for BERA Annual Conference 2020

Dear colleagues, All of us will have spent the past few weeks responding to the implications for our professional and personal lives of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the profound impact it...

BERA Members’ Reception

Announcement of BERA Annual Conference 2020 Note: You will need to be logged in to see the register button BERA are delighted to announce the 1st BERA Members' Reception. Members will have the...

Tensions in current curriculum reform and the development of teachers’ professional autonomy

Current curriculum reform in Wales offers the chance for teachers to have greater freedom in developing pedagogical approaches that meet the needs of their pupils. The Successful Futures report...

Neil Selwyn

Neil Selwyn is a professor in Monash University’s Faculty of Education (Australia). His research is currently focussing on issues of datafication, digital labor and the AI-driven automation of...

Jesper Aagaard

Jesper Aagaard is a lecturer in Aarhus University’s Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences (Denmark). His research is currently focussing on the use of digital devices in school...

COVID-19: Online teaching and learning

A new virtual issue of BJET Online learning and teaching has necessarily come to the fore over the past few weeks and months as we adapt to Covid-19. In a new virtual issue of the British Journal...

Helen Lewis

Dr Helen Lewis is director of initial teacher education at Swansea University. Her background is in primary, initial and continuing teacher education, and she has previously worked as a teacher...

Online teacher education in times of Covid-19

Covid-19, education and educational research

Almost all dimensions of human experience have been affected by the Covid-19 outbreak, and governments around the world have adopted stringent measures to stop the spread of the virus. One such...

Making post-GCSE decisions during the Covid-19 crisis: The need for action

Covid-19, education and educational research

In the public debate about the impacts of the Covid-19 lockdown on education, much attention has understandably been given to concerns about disadvantaged children falling behind at school, and to...

Tackling the languages ‘crisis’: Supporting multilingualism in the new curriculum for Wales

What can be done to inspire an uplift for modern foreign languages across Wales in the future?

Learning progression in the humanities: Identifying tensions in articulating progression in the humanities in Wales

The current curriculum reforms in Wales (Welsh Government, 2020) represent a significant shift in thinking and organisation. As well as the introduction of the ‘four purposes’ to drive...