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‘Do It Yourself’ Professional Development (DIY PD)

Before moving in to my current role in teacher education I worked as a primary school class teacher. I loved my job but nearly every Tuesday I would trudge in to the staffroom for a CPD session....

‘We’re still here!’ Higher aspirations for young people with life limiting impairments

There are now many more young people living across the UK with life limiting impairments than ever before. An example of this is Duchenne Muscular dystrophy (DMD), a genetic muscle wasting...

EAL Learners’ Mother Tongues: To include or Exclude. A Randomized Comparison of Alternative Approaches

In 1684 Charles Hoole, Latin teacher and celebrated educationalist, published a collection of Latin colloquies, presented side-by-side with English translations. Hoole included the translations so...

Teacher agency: What is it and why does it matter?

Highlights from the first 1,000 BERA Blog posts

The concept of ‘teacher agency’ has elicited a fair amount of attention recently, including a special edition of Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice. And yet, it remains an elusive...

Becky Francis appointed Standing Advisor to Education Select Committee

BERA congratulates long-standing BERA member Prof. Becky Francis on her appointment as Standing Advisor to the Education Select Committee for the new Parliament.

Applying Intelligence to Teacher Education

I was motivated to write this blog after Michael Wilshaw, Her Majesty's Chief Inspector, gave a speech about teacher recruitment and training at the Festival of Education, at Wellington College on...

Autumn 2015

The latest issue of Research Intelligence looks at ‘Developing Research Capacity’ and features contributions from Suzanne Alexander, Sean Hayes, Maria Kambouri and Eileen Scanlon amongst...

An opportunity for change?

the benchmarks of what is deemed acceptable in terms of school improvement are apparently edged up each year Nationally, the speed of change involving education policy is rapid and much of...

Research Matters

A colleague recently applauded the professionalism of educators, quoting in particular the ‘inquisitive minds’ they possess. The positive definitions of inquisitiveness - inclined to...

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