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Gaining insight through student voice

As I spend my last days of summer vacation in my classroom preparing for the start of my 25th new school year, I find myself reflecting on past classes, curriculum changes and my beliefs about...

What difference can be made to teacher practice in assessment for learning?

Most people want students to learn as well as possible, while being fiscally and time efficient. The majority of teachers do the best they can. Yet some students and teachers appear to achieve...

Can Social Realism Do Social Justice?

Our BERA presentation, ‘Can Social Realism Do Social Justice: Debating the Warrants for Curriculum Knowledge Selection’, is based on a paper of the same title, soon to be available online from...

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...

‘Turning Schools Inside Out’: Developing Curriculum with Community Partners

In this blog I will be arguing that it would be extremely beneficial for many schools to engage in community curriculum making (CCM) whereby some of the curriculum is developed with community...

Statutory PSHE education – what more can we do?

In February, the Commons Education Committee recommended that Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) education, the subject which teaches pupils to keep healthy and safe and prepares them...

How do you measure a national curriculum?

One of the trends in educational research has been towards more sophisticated understandings about which research methods are appropriate to answer particular research questions. For example a...

Association for the Study of Primary Education (ASPE) Seminar Series

Association for the Study of Primary Education (ASPE) Seminar Series Teaching English, language and literacy in the primary curriculum One in a series of five conferences on the primary...

Curriculum Development and the Policy Process

Wales, England, Northern Ireland and Scotland are all involved in major curriculum and assessment change. Whilst the political context within which these changes are taking place varies...

Curriculum, Assessment and Pedagogy

To encourage and support research and other scholarly activity in the inter-related areas of curriculum, assessment and pedagogy across the 4 nations of the UK and internationally.