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Exposing the Lie Within: legitimate culture, organisational protectionism and the quest for racial justice in higher education

In his seminal 1992 publication Faces at the bottom of the Well, the eminent scholar and founder of Critical Race Theory (CRT) Derrick Bell proffers what some might consider a harrowing and...

Interrupting the Politics of Learning; Reclaiming the Beautiful Risk of Education

The past two decades have witnessed a remarkable rise of the language of learning in education and in our lives more generally. Not only is it claimed that we live in an age of learning; we are...

Why might BERA wish to thank Margaret Thatcher?

What does BERA owe to Margaret Thatcher?  It sounds like a weird pub quiz question, and may have an even weirder answer.  When BERA’s inaugural conference met in Birmingham in April 1974,...

BERA Annual General Meeting 2017

The 42st BERA AGM will take place at 5:00pm on Monday 4th September 2017. It will be held in the Noblese Room, Jurys Inn Brighton Waterfront. All members are invited to attend, please ensure...

BERA Conference 2017

Brighton

The BERA Conference 2017 was held on the 4th-7th September 2017 at the University of Sussex. Keynote speakers included: Professor Gerry Czerniawski, Professor Gary McCulloch, Dr Nicola Rollock,...

PESP Invisible College 2017

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. This event is sponsored by: The Invisible College...

BERA Conference 2017 – 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...

Critically Examining the Emergence of Teach First

In the latest issue of the British Educational Research Journal, Allen and Allnutt (2017) assess, using longitudinal data, the impact of Teach First teachers on secondary pupils’ outcomes. ...

Learning about learning and teaching through collaborative observation

Teaching excellence has been at the centre of debates about quality in English Higher Education (HE) in recent years. The introduction of the Teaching Excellence Framework has ratcheted up this...

Researching pathways into higher education with students from refugee backgrounds: Exploring the conceptual, methodological and ethical challenges

We are thrilled to have been selected to represent the Australian Association for Research in Education as a featured symposium at this year’s BERA conference. We believe that the selection of...

Join BERA Now and get the remainder of 2017 Free

JOIN BERA now for 2018 and receive three months of 2017 Free! BERA is delighted to offer new BERA members an exciting opportunity - join BERA now for 2018 and take advantage of BERA's fantastic...

The value of Literacy as a Social Practice approach to exploring young children’s experience of being taught to read and write in school

Over the last thirty years in English and Welsh State primary education, successive governments have placed increasing emphasis on ‘raising standards’ in literacy. Children’s attainment or...