Figure 1: Two avatars meeting in the virtual world Second Life, in a virtual space owned by Imperial College London Our study recently published in the British Journal of Educational...
Drawing on the theme of transformation, the editorial blogs provide us with lenses to further probe different dimensions of transformation. Professor Vini Lander and Dr Francis Farrell’s timely...
Colleagues and international visitors are invited to participate in prof. dr. Ivor Goodson’s (University of Brighton, UK) seminar 'Narrative Inquiry and the study of social systems‘....
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. Recent national initiatives, such as the Maths Hubs,...
Research Symposium at King’s College London in association with Teachers College, Columbia University and Teacher Education Exchange, 16-18 June 2017. Call for Papers If we accept that the...
Carrying out the research for the section on Play and Pedagogy was a pleasure. This was because the field of play scholarship is extensive, international, multi-disciplinary and progressive in...
My work on the Parenting chapter of the BERA/ TACTYC Review of the Early Years Literature triggered some questions that I felt compelled to further investigate. The literature that I accessed...
The early years education field has always emphasised the holistic nature of early development and learning despite the continued prevalence of separate subject- or development-based domains...
In March 2017, the long-awaited Early Years Workforce Strategy for England was published by the DfE. It aims to put in place a number of measures to address some of the difficulties currently...
The formalisation process which the review shows has been happening in Early Childhood Education, particularly since 2010, has moved into a new phase in 2016-17. The OECD has been considering a...
South Coast Symposium: Dr. Barbara Crossouard, University of Sussex This event is now fully booked. To be placed on the waiting list, please email events@bera.ac.uk. ...
During 2015/6 BERA funded three Research Commissions to identify and explore topics of concern for the discipline and its research communities. The Research Commissions were asked to: identify...