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‘Learning for All’

BERA funded six small grants in 2022/23 under the title “Learning for all”. These grants supported projects which examine educational provision in its widest sense that seeks to provide or...

How can books hit the sweet spot between the reader and the story character?

Why do some stories resonate with readers more than others? It is probably because they minimise the distance between the reader and the story character. The classic reader-response theory...

Teaching English when schools are closed: Experiences & lessons learned

Education & Covid-19: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports

Following their closure to most students in March 2020, schools in England addressed the pedagogical challenge of remote learning using approaches that varied according not only to school culture...

Silver linings: Lockdown legacies

In my November 2020 BERA Blog, ‘Reading during lockdown: Supporting vulnerable learners’, I reported on the beginnings of a small-scale research project (funded by BERA) to explore the impact...

Reading during lockdown: Supporting vulnerable learners

Learning to read is perhaps the most important thing we learn to do. There is significant evidence that being a reader impacts on future social, emotional, economic and academic success. A failure...

Entanglements of writing and matter: Towards less human-centred practices

Over the last decade, the humanities and social sciences have become increasingly interested in the nonhuman (animals, plants, non-living objects) as having agentic and performative capacities. By...

Where does materiality take us? Posthuman methodological pathways for maker literacies research

Over the last decade, the landscape of research on materiality in educational studies has shifted from an emphasis on semiotic modes to one that considers material relationality and affective...

Typing aloud

In common with most teacher educators, I am a big fan of classroom talk. I continually stress to my English subject trainee teachers the huge value of the spoken word and invite them to be...

John Gordon

Reader in English Education

I am Reader in English Education at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. I am an experienced English teacher educator, and came into teaching as a secondary-phase specialist in English and...

Transcending borders: Creativity, English and the arts for learning, knowing and hopefulness

International Symposium: Creativity, English and the Arts Transcending borders: Creativity, English and the arts for learning, knowing and hopefulness This one day international Symposium will...

English in Education – SIG Convenor vacancy

Call for SIG Convenor The English in Education SIG is a forum for researchers to investigate what is a broad and complex area of knowledge: our starting point is the school subject of English,...

Exploring ways forward in English: Building the curriculum in theory and practice

This event has now been postponed. To be kept updated on when this will be reschedule for, please email events@bera.ac.uk.  What are the pressing issues affecting English teaching in classrooms...