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Meeting curriculum requirements while recognising the need for students to relate to texts

In 2010, a number of sweeping educational reforms were announced – particularly in English – where the likes of Byron, Keats and Dickens would firmly be re-rooted and restored to their...

Include, inspire, improve: The power of learner-led research

Learners are paramount as agents of change in education. They are the core reason educational experiences exist. Without empowerment and ownership of change, learners will not and cannot be...

Teaching and learning communities as a vehicle for developing action research

Over the past eighteen months, our teaching and learning community (TLC) has been working on an action research project designed to develop metacognitive strategies and cultivate self-directed...

The action research gardener: How doing action research restores my emotional energy

A central question to my action research (AR) asks how a teacher-educator can improve her practice to support trainee-teacher learning during teaching practice (TP). My research was prompted by...

Data in schools: Why gathering reliable data is so important

In 2017, the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills in England (Ofsted) stated for the first time that all of its work is evidence-led. Specifically, the regulator’s...

BERA Conference 2023 – Call for Abstract Reviewers

Would you be willing to act as a reviewer for abstracts submitted to the BERA Annual Conference 2023? To be involved, you will need to: be a BERA Member be available to referee abstracts...

Invitation to write an article for a special section of Research Intelligence (issue 155 – summer 23) 

Invitation to write an article for a special section of Research Intelligence (issue 155 – summer 23)  BERA’s Higher Education (HE) and Practitioner Research special interest groups (SIGs)...

Practitioner Research in Mathematics Education (PRiME) 2023

The aim of the Practitioner Research in Mathematics Education (PRiME) event is to provide a supportive platform for teachers of mathematics in early years, primary, secondary, further education or...

Practitioner Research in Mathematics Education (PRiME) 2023

The aim of the Practitioner Research in Mathematics Education (PRiME) event is to provide a supportive platform for teachers of mathematics in early years, primary, secondary, further education or...

Diversifying our curriculum: Rediscovering the power of our narrative voices

BCF Curriculum Investigation Grant Research Reports

Funded by the 2021–2022 British Curriculum Forum Curriculum Investigation Grant, this project aimed to investigate the degree to which a secondary school in England included a multitude of...

Can a whole-school curriculum focus on celebrating diversity reduce the volume of racist incidents?

BCF Curriculum Investigation Grant Research Reports

This project, funded by the 2021–2022 British Curriculum Forum (BCF) Curriculum Investigation Grant, involved finding ways to celebrate diversity within a Welsh school and its school curriculum....

Sounding right, sounding white: Interrogating language, race and curriculum in secondary education

BCF Curriculum Investigation Grant Research Reports

Funded by the British Curriculum Forum Curriculum Investigation Grant 2021–2022, this project explored the impact of offering lower KS3 pupils a curriculum that contrasted significantly with the...