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Teaching reading: what are our long term goals?

In the light of the House of Commons Education Committee Inquiry into the purpose and quality of education, I’ve been pondering on the primary profession’s long-term goals for teaching reading...

Poverty & Education in four jurisdictions and internationally

Research Commission: Poverty and Policy Advocacy

The BERA Commission on Poverty and Policy Advocacy: seminar series       Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk for...

‘I don’t need the British to communicate in English’. Social connectedness and the international student experience

The ‘international student experience’ is of increasing interest to researchers, educators and policy-makers alike. Social connectedness has been found to be key to the quality of this...

BERA Research Commission 2015/2017 –Reviewing the Potential and Challenges of Developing STEAM Education

Reviewing the Potential and Challenges of Developing STEAM Education through CreativePedagogies for 21st Century Learning: how can school curricula be broadened towards a more responsive,...

Career Long Professional Learning as a Disposition

Career-long professional learning and professional development is something we have been thinking and talking about for many years now, but we don't seem to have cracked this particular conundrum...

Problematising the CPD (Continuing Professional Development) Needs of Early Years Educators in England

Aileen Kennedy’s (2005) ‘most read’ article was used as a starting point for a current research project that explores the CPD experiences of a sample of Early Years educators in the north of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Should 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...