Jamie Fairbairn
Dr Jamie Fairbairn is principal teacher of the Faculty of Humanities at Banff Academy, leading the subject areas of geography, history, modern studies, religious, moral and philosophical studies...
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BERA Bites
The BERA Bites series presents selected articles from the BERA Blog on key topics in education, presented in an easily printable and digestible format to serve as teaching and learning resources...
Geoff Walton
Dr Geoff Walton is senior lecturer in the Department of Languages, Information and Communications at Manchester Metropolitan University. His research interests are information literacy,...
Disentangling and debating creativity in education: methodologies, research and assessment
A Creativities in Education SIG annual event supported by the Creativity and Emergent Educational Futures Network, University of Exeter
Researching creative practices in schools
Our review of the CP archive showed a preponderance of case study research (Thomson, Coles, Hallewell, & Keane, 2014). Some of this used surveys, but almost all of it was interview (including...
Creativity: pros and cons of a quantitative research approach
This presentation will describe several research studies that have looked at characteristics of creative people, creative processes, and creative environments. For each empirical study, the...
Anna Craft Memorial Lecture: Possibility thinking about the future of creativity
In this talk, I will use Anna Craft’s possibility thinking to explore how we can find new positive outcomes to explore for creativity research. So much current work looks at how creativity may...
Mark Leather
Dr Mark Leather is a co-convenor of BERA’s Nature, Outdoor Learning and Play (NOLAP) special interest group (SIG). He is an associate professor of education, course tutor for the MRes in Outdoor...
Disentangling and debating creativity in education: methodologies, research and assessment
Presentations from this event is now online here. Employers and educators identify creativity in young people as a highly desired quality. However, it is elusive to recognise, facilitate and...
Beyond words: Materiality and the play of things
Tim Ingold’s (2013) account of the art of inquiry begins with the relation between thinking and making, a relation that ‘allow[s] knowledge to grow from the crucible of our practical and...
Re-imagining the classroom to encourage school students to learn about literature
Motivating children to learn about literature and stay motivated in class is a challenge which we have found a way to address. We found that creating e-artefacts – that is, digital artefacts...
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Sarah Seleznyov
Sarah Seleznyov is one of the founding Headteachers of School 360 and leads the Rethinking Schools project for Big Education. She has worked in London schools for over 25 years including as a...
