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Power to the People; Can Teacher Coaching be viewed as a form of Transformational Leadership?

There is something both alluring and disquieting about theories which can be summed up as a catchy combination of letters and numbers. They create a hook, something which we can engage with, may...

Lessons from the past to inform the future

Research Commission: Poverty and Policy Advocacy

The BERA Commission on Poverty and Policy Advocacy: seminar series Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk for details of how to...

Creating a culture of high expectations: complexities and challenges

Labelling and notions of fixed ability are prevalent in our education system. Students are divided into groups according to their prior attainment and ‘appropriate’ work is provided as a...

The Adventure of Education

Is it possible to think about education as adventure? This is a question I raised in a recent article I wrote for the Journal of Education Administration and History (Tamboukou 2016). The idea...

Are private schools really that good?

Recently research sponsored by the Independent Schools Council (ISC) was released that “attending an Independent school in England is associated with the equivalent of two additional years of...

What do ‘skills’ mean for school governing bodies?

In a recently published article[i] in the Journal of Education Policy (JEP), I traced how governors with ‘skills’ are increasingly privileged over representative governors. I wrote about the...

Methodologies for researching with the most disadvantaged in situations of conflict

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.Central to research on conflict are issues of social...

Teacher Education in Times of Change: recent developments and future challenges

Teacher education across the four nations of the UK is undergoing a period of significant change. This seminar, hosted by the Teacher Education and Development SIG, explores the emergence of...

Advances in cultural-historical theory

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.A series of events over two days which aim to develop...

The (Proposed) Teaching Excellence Framework: Whose world-view is this anyway?

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.This BERA Higher Education SIG event provides the...

Explaining Trump’s Rise, Educationally

The rise of Donald Trump as front running Republican Party presidential candidate in the United States has startled many left-liberal leaning members of the society, and captured the attention of...

The essence of social pedagogy

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