Social Mobility and the Family
Social mobility has become an essential policy solution, an apparent panacea for inequality, injustice and unfairness (Hoskins & Barker, 2014). The idea of individuals transcending their...
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How realistic is social mobility?
We hear a lot about social mobility, especially during elections. Political parties and governments often use social mobility (alongside keywords such as opportunity, potential and justice) as a...
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Social mobility and education; opportunities and constraints in post Brexit Britain
It is now a tired old panacea, operating as a very inadequate sticking plaster over the gaping wound social inequalities have become in the post-Brexit landscape Theresa May told her new...
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The desire for knowledge
I came across this innocuous looking phrase in an interview with the French sociologist of education Bernard Charlot on the internet. He was quoting the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan to explain how...
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Are you an Educational Researcher living or working in Wales?
Following discussions in recent months and a successful conversation during the conference in Leeds, BERA is now undertaking a short survey to explore how we might support educational research in...
Exploring theories of change in education: determining when, how and why x leads to y?
This event is now fully booked. To be placed on the waiting list, please email events@bera.ac.uk. Chair/convenor: Richard Thurston, Deputy Chief Research Officer, Welsh Government Theory-based...
Subject Hierarchies and the Purpose of Learning – Time to press re-set?
The announcement last month that AQA was to withdraw the final History of Art A level specification brought a critical response in the press and on social media, not simply because it represented...
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Let’s talk about innovation in Initial Teacher Education
TEAN – ‘Let’s talk about …’ discussion WORKSHOPS Let’s talk about innovation in Initial Teacher Education REGISTRATION OPEN What future would you design for ITE and early...
Social Mobility and Secondary Moderns
The perhaps deliberately leaked return to secondary modern schooling took playing politics with education to a new low. It signalled May’s appropriation of another of UKIP’s policies but,...
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Lansiad Medal Hugh Owen Hugh Owen Medal Launch
We are pleased to invite you to the Launch of the Learned Society of Wales's Hugh Owen Medal which will be held at the Old College, Aberystwyth University at 10am on Monday 28 November. Cabinet...
The paradoxical nature of Swedish school reform
a rigid concept of teaching where discipline in the classroom seems more important than the overriding goal of the curriculum In a recent publication in the Curriculum Journal (Fredholm,...
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NZARE Annual Conference 2016
THE POLITICS OF LEARNINGVictoria University of Wellington20-23 November 2016Te Whare Wānanga o te Ūpoko o te Ika, Victoria University of Wellington is the host for this year’s NZARE...