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Another fine mess! The allocation of initial teacher training places for 2016

In their excoriating analysis of The Blunders of our Governments, the political scientists Anthony King and Ivor Crewe offer twelve case studies, or 'horror stories', as they call them, from the...

BERA Annual Conference 2016 – abstract notification

Notification emails have now been sent out to all abstract submitters for the BERA Annual Conference 2016.Check your inboxes. Has your abstract been accepted?The volume and standard of abstracts...

Schools, community and the low attainment nexus

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...

Teacher peer coaching; a story of trust, agency and enablers

This blog is a good news story in terms of teacher collaboration from The Hermitage Academy, a North-East Teaching School. The Academy has deliberately and steadily built a culture of teacher...

Call for Papers: Curriculum Journal Special issue edited by James Albright

Guest editor James Albright (The University of Newcastle, Australia)Revisiting the Principes pour une réflexion sur les contenus d’enseignment (Bourdieu, 1989)Volume 28 Issue 1, to be published...

A Technological revolution in Our New Year’s Resolutions?

By now, many of us are probably starting to waver on our New Year's resolutions. In recent years, these have increasingly involved limiting our use of technology, the Internet and mobile phones,...

Interrogating the boundaries of childhood studies and youth studies: Themes, debates and controversies in research and practice

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.Programme10.30 Arrival and Registration11.00 Opening...

Giving, saving, spending: What would Welsh children do with £1 million?

WISERD Education has been exploring children’s responses to a single question: ‘If someone gave you £1 million today, what would you do with it?’ Although such an exploration might seem...

International Perspectives On Educational Inequalities And Social Policy-Making

Following Teesside University’s successful social policy REF (Research Excellence Framework) submission I accepted a formal invitation to attend The Bremen International Graduate School of...

Training and/or Learning and Development which is key for quality in teaching

The drive to measure teaching performance through observations and assessment in schools and the introduction of teaching excellence framework (TEF) at HEI has led educators to ask “where do we...

BERA Conference 2016 – Keynote speakers confirmed

Professor Siân Bayne Sian is Professor of Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh, based in the Moray House School of Education. She directs the Centre for Research in Digital Education...

A new direction for gifted education studies?

Research on ‘giftedness’ and ‘gifted education’ often feels like a marginalised endeavour, one which is quite rightly viewed by many as elitist. We have ample evidence to demonstrate that...