Bringing Teacher Education Forward
The University of Oslo, Norway is hosting a conference on 'Bringing Teacher Education Forward - National and International Perspectives” on 6-8 June 2016.This conference aims to bring teacher...
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In the eye of the storm: Reclaiming the ‘pedagogical’ in teacher education
You are like a hurricane. There's calm in your eye. - Neil Young In Flanders, the government recently commissioned a review of Flemish teacher education. The final report, with the interesting...
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Meeting the supply of teachers
There is an impending crisis in the numbers of teachers in schools. This is message that I have heard time and again at the various conferences I have attended in recent weeks looking at the...
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What happens to assessment resources in teacher teams?
What happens when teachers work with assessment resources that are introduced to schools, accompanied by expectations of instructional change? This question was the focus of my article in the...
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Everyday Maths: Empowering parents to ‘find the maths’ in everyday family activity
The Everyday Maths project (funded by the Nuffield Foundation) explored and supported parental involvement in children’s mathematics learning, taking a parent-centred approach. Traditional...
Continue reading blog postShould teacher educators publish a set of standards or should we make public our practices?
Last week I sat down with my son to watch The Hunt, a new David Attenborough documentary about predatory behaviour. The episode was filmed in the Arctic. There, when the ice caps melt, the life of...
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Hashtagcrockoftest or how to resist (the baseline assessment for 4-5 year olds in England)
I’m both laughing and crying. We do a lot of that in education, don’t we? Someone at work who works closely with teachers just told me that teachers in English schools, if asked about a test...
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Evidence-based practice – some common misconceptions
Over the last 12 months I have been lucky enough to have the opportunity to read, reflect and write about evidence-based practice and education. The more and more I have read about the...
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The Language We Carry Inside
‘Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.’ Italo Calvino Why is it that...
Continue reading blog postCan social competence be taught to older children and young adults?
As a practitioner within FE I have observed a variety of different levels of learners where the interaction between them may not always be as I would expect. Some learners clearly display the...
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BERA President’s Roundtable seminar series 2015-16
Methodological challenges in education(al) researchBERA is starting a series of presidential round table seminars that will draw on processes of agenda- setting, horizon-scanning, evidence review...
Postgraduate Forum Series 2016: Dilemmas in Educational Research
Who are these events for? These symposia are for postgraduate and/or early career researchers in education – from those in the various stages of doctoral work, to those who just completed their...