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White Working-Class Boys’ Learner Identities in Neoliberal Times

In the United Kingdom, it is widely documented both in academic circles and in the popular press that white working-class children consistently underperform at school and are less likely to attend...

Summer Institute in Qualitative Research: Putting Theory to Work

MMU Research Education and Social Research Institute Plenary Keynote Speakers Patricia Clough City University of New York Patti Lather Ohio State University Elizabeth de Freitas Adelphi...

Learning from the classroom – Practitioner research in mathematics education

Registration online is now closed. However if you would still like to attend this event please email enquiries@bera.ac.uk.Recent national initiatives such as the primary Mathematics Specialist...

New Editors for Review of Education

We are delighted to announce the appointment of a new editorial team for Review of Education. The new team comes from the School of Education and the CEM Centre, Durham University and consists...

Lessons from Near and Far: improving links between policy and research around children’s learning outside the classroom in natural environments (LINE).

The purpose of the conference is to improve the research and policy interface around outdoor learning. It is an international conference and we welcome papers that help to shed light on this...

Mentor education – creating an infrastructure for reducing teacher attrition

the tendencies related to teacher attrition in many countries are alarming and have huge economical as well as educational implications The quality of teaching is of concern in most countries...

Sustainable schools led teacher education that keeps the baby in the bath

With the election of the first Conservative majority government since 1997, and the re-appointment of Nicky Morgan as Secretary of State, we can confidently expect a continuation of the school led...

Are we disconnected in world of connections?

An email message came round to the National Teaching Fellow (NTF) email list inviting us to write a blog article for BERA and I jumped at the chance. The invitation hit me at the right moment and...

Using the physical environment to improve education

It might seem as if buildings, the physical location of education, are of only tangential interest to an education researcher: something that can be left to architects in the same way as the human...

Annual Lecture

Just to remind people that the Annual Lecture scheduled for Tuesday 30th June has been cancelled due to unavoidable circumstances. We hope to rearrange in due course.

Teaching Maths for Social Justice

Teaching mathematics is a social justice issue. Despite numerous calls from the mathematics education community, the curriculum in England remains stubbornly resistant to change. Too many...

Researching with young and developmentally young children: Ethical considerations, dilemmas and compromises

Highlights from the first 1,000 BERA Blog posts

One of the most challenging considerations when researching with children is the question of gaining their consent to participate in research and their perspectives on the topic under study....