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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...
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15th-17th September 2015 Queen's University Belfast The BERA conference went back to Belfast after over 15 years since we were last here. Attended by over 700 delegates, this was the first...
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...
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BELMAS Day Conference in collaboration with the Co-operative College, The Co-operative Head Office, ManchesterThe purpose of this conference is to consider the issue of whether leadership in...
This special issue of the London Review of Education will explore the multiple sources of young people’s historical knowledge – in collective memory and social conversation as well as in the...
What name would you give to a school or group of schools that won’t share? ‘Oxbow’ sounds a good name to me, after those lakes that were once part of the mainstream but are now cut off to...
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The London bombings, 10 years ago this year, radically transformed the education policy framing of Muslim communities in Britain. The events signified a radical shift away from the politics of...
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As a teacher in Further Education (FE), I read a cross section of teacher blogs and engage with the debate that is burgeoning on social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook and the new blogging...
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Building on discussions at ECER 2015 in Budapest, BERA members and delegates used the opportunity of being gathered at the annual conference in Belfast to discuss how they might individually and...
The English DfE's Teachers’ Professional Development Expert Group is developing a standard for teachers’ professional development.They would like to hear about what makes for effective...
The number of children registered as having special educational needs is dropping sharply as schools in England respond to government policy changes and possibly, also, to pressures on their...
We have negotiated with Conference Leeds, special rates at the nearby hotels. The rates provided are specifically for BERA 2016. Please see below a selection of the hotels available. More are...