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Reading More Wisely

In 2014, ReadingWise invited us to carry out an independent study of its Computer-Based Literacy Programme for Accelerated Reading Acquisition. Following exploratory meetings, schools and adult...

Winter 2015

Issue 128 of Research intelligence looks at "Framing Excellence in Teaching: Towards a TEF For higher education" and features contributions from: Garry McCulloch Hilary Burgess Ruth...

New issue of Research Intelligence out now

The Winter issue of Research Intelligence has just been published. This issue looks at “Framing Excellence in Teaching: Towards a TEF For higher education” as well as all the usual BERA News...

Literacy not just a skill: a critical lens and tool to expose and challenge symbolic violence and poverty

In the last two decades there has been an attention on literacy, principally among countries participating in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) (Grek, 2010;...

‘Tragedy of the commons’: how the government abandoned the pursuit of teacher quality

The ‘tragedy of the commons’ is a well-known tenet of public, and especially environmental policy. The ‘commons’ refers to a resource shared by many individuals who can use a portion of it...

Teacher Education Research – a reference to a European Research Space

This blog is based on the paper presented in the EERA 2015 Conference Network Meeting. The European Educational Research Association (EERA) and its annual European Conference of Educational...

Humanity – a threat to the institution

Like many lecturers in higher education I weary of the techno-managed, audited and performance-reviewed life we lead. I can’t believe in it and it all seems so poor and, contrary to the...

Abstract Registration

Abstract submission now open for BERA Conference 2016

BERA is please to announce that the abstract submission has now opened for the BERA Conference 2016 to be held at the University of Leeds, 13th-15th September 2016. Submit/Edit an AbstractDeadline...

How can we do education research in a socially just way?

Social Justice SIG pre-conference event for ECRs The Social Justice Special Interest Group (SIG) held a pre-conference event ahead of this year’s BERA annual conference in Belfast.  The event...

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...

Teacher educators’ identity

Systematic research on the development of a professional identity of teacher educators is still scarce, but there are indications that teacher educators who become involved in professional...