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Ivor Goodson

Professor of Learning Theory

Ivor Goodson is professor of Learning Theory at the University of Brighton. He has worked in universities in England, Canada and the USA, and held visiting positions in many countries. Early in...

Ruth Boyask

Ruth works in the field of critical studies in education, focusing on public education, social justice, democracy, and school reform. Her academic career that has traversed five universities in...

Lesley Saunders

Lesley Saunders has worked all her life in education, as teacher, researcher, policy adviser and independent consultant. She is an experienced evaluator, writer and presenter. She have an...

Curriculum coherence facilitates school development

The ways in which local educational stakeholders interpret and understand curriculum reform is crucial to its effects on everyday school practice (see for exampleSpillane, Reiser & Reimer, 2002)....

CERA ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2019 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

CERA Annual Conference 2019 'call for abstracts' is open. The conference this year will take place on the 13th and 14th June 2019 at UCL Institute of Education. Transformation in space:...

CERA-BERA Academic Writing Workshop

We are delighted to announce that CERA 2019 will organise a one-day Academic Writing Workshop in cooperation with BERA on 12 June at UCL Institute of Education. This workshop is targeted at...

Lifelong learning ecologies: The challenge of capturing emergent forms of learning

Why does a powerful metaphor of learning in our contemporary society poorly convey empirical research, research transfer and applications? This appears to be true of the concept of ‘learning...

Special Interest Groups Review – Call for Applications

Background BERA currently has 35 Special Interest Groups (SIGs) that represent the particular research concerns and interests of groups of members of the Association. SIGs vary in size of...

Education for Justice

Societies in many parts of the world are still dealing with the colonial legacy of educational systems that served a privileged few. Efforts are constantly made to redress the resulting historic...

Technology-mediated learning theory: A holistic and field-specific referent for the analysis of technology-enhanced learning

The recent 50th anniversary special section of the British Journal of Educational Technology (BJET) on ‘Developing Critical and Theoretical Approaches to Educational Technology Research and...

What next for Religious Education?

This seminar offers an opportunity for policy makers, practitioners, academics working in the field and other stakeholders to engage with differing research-informed perspectives on the Commission...

BERA Publications Committee: Call for new members

We are pleased to announce the call for members to apply to join BERA's Publications Committee: one ‘ordinary’ committee member, ideally with expertise in open access publishing and/or...