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Whole-class I-R-F: Confronting the ‘Pseudo-differentiation’ Issue

The practice of ‘differentiation’ in a whole-class setting is an established concept and regarded as being an essential feature of effective pedagogy. As Kerry (2002, p.82) points...

Connecting Creativities, Interculturality and Gender through Practice: Series 2015 – 16

This series, hosted by Homerton College and the Faculty of Education, aims to bring new insights to often well-rehearsed and polarized debates from different fields and disciplines about what...

What’s the Difference?

GCSE results published by the Department for Education (DfE) show enormous variations between the performance of English secondary schools. If we are serious about school improvement then it is...

New Editors for BJET

BERA is delighted to announce the appointment of a new editorial team for the British Journal of Educational Technology (BJET).After a highly competitive process, Carina Girvan, Sara Hennessy,...

Researching the Further Education Sector

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. Please join us at Bedford College for a one-day...

Power to the People; Can Teacher Coaching be viewed as a form of Transformational Leadership?

There is something both alluring and disquieting about theories which can be summed up as a catchy combination of letters and numbers. They create a hook, something which we can engage with, may...

Lessons from the past to inform the future

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 details of how to...

Creating a culture of high expectations: complexities and challenges

Labelling and notions of fixed ability are prevalent in our education system. Students are divided into groups according to their prior attainment and ‘appropriate’ work is provided as a...

The Adventure of Education

Is it possible to think about education as adventure? This is a question I raised in a recent article I wrote for the Journal of Education Administration and History (Tamboukou 2016). The idea...

Are private schools really that good?

Recently research sponsored by the Independent Schools Council (ISC) was released that “attending an Independent school in England is associated with the equivalent of two additional years of...

What do ‘skills’ mean for school governing bodies?

In a recently published article[i] in the Journal of Education Policy (JEP), I traced how governors with ‘skills’ are increasingly privileged over representative governors. I wrote about the...

Methodologies for researching with the most disadvantaged in situations of conflict

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.Central to research on conflict are issues of social...