A new Hunger Games in education?
The chance photograph of a briefing paper on grammar schools has bounced the government into bringing a half-baked idea into the full glare of publicity before they’ve really thought it...
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BERA Conference 2016 – Keynote Lectures
For educational researchers the BERA Annual Conference is an important date in their professional year. It provides the opportunity to: network with existing colleagues support new...
Professionalism and the early years practitioner
Government-led workforce reforms in the early years sector have led to significant change in the range and level of qualifications available to practitioners, and social and economic policy over...
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BERA AGM Papers
The papers for the 41st BERA AGM are available to download from this page. As previously noted, the meeting takes place at 5pm on Monday 12th September in the Radisson Blu Hotel in Leeds.
BERA/TACTYC 2016 Academic and User Reviews: Early Childhood Education Keynote symposium
Members of the Early Childhood SIG are presenting the BERA/TACTYC Academic Review of Early Childhood Education, bringing together specialists in BERA and TACTYC (Association for Professional...
Continue reading blog postRecruitment, Retention and Region: the three ‘R’s’ challenging school performance in England
Now that the summer term has ended it is possible to look at the 2016 recruitment round for teachers in some detail. although the recruitment round will include vacancies for January 2017, the...
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School letters
One of the many novel phenomena associated with the rise of social media is the nationwide news story that is driven by a small personal event. Increasingly, members of the public will share...
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Summer 2016
ISSUE 130 OF RESEARCH INTELLIGENCE CHARACTER, VALUES AND ETHICS CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION, SOCIAL JUSTICE AND BREXIT FEATURING AUDREY OSLER TOM HARRISON MATTHEW BAWDEN SHAMIM...
Reflections on ICET 2016
The 60th World Assembly of the International Council for Education for Teaching (ICET) took place in Kingston Jamaica on 18-21 July, and included keynotes from: the Hon. Errol Miller, former...
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The pervasive binary Vs Queer Youth
I was invited to write this blog piece as a request for a piece on Transgenderism through the Sexuality’s SIG and couldn’t help but see tension and conflict within this request. This tension...
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Under pressure: historical thinking in the age of performance
In Sweden, international trends are challenging traditional conceptions about teaching practices. On the one hand, Swedish schools are regulated through a system of accountability, which leads to...
Continue reading blog postResearching learning through the observation of modelling and simulation
Learning about abstract concepts can be difficult due to the hidden nature of the phenomena of interest. Developing understanding about abstract concepts is therefore challenging because...
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