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BERA Conference 2019 to hear of new interdisciplinary study exploring the virtues underpinning ‘British values’

Much has been written, since the introduction of the duty on schools to promote ‘fundamental British values’ in the 2014 Ofsted inspection handbook, on the rights and wrongs of using education...

Lynn Revell

Reader in Educaton and Religion

Lynn Revell is a reader in religion and education at Canterbury Christ Church University where she has worked on the PGCE for Religious Education and Citizenship, and now leads the Doctorate in...

Sally Elton-Chalcraft

Professor of Social Justice in Education

Sally Elton-Chalcraft is Professor of Social Justice in Education, and is Director of the Learning Education and Development Research Centre in the Institute of Education at the University of...

The impact of the prevent duty on schools: What does the evidence tell us?

The UK government has become influential in the field of countering violent extremism (CVE), and Kundnani and Hayes (2018) document how its legislation and policy framework has been exported...

Statutory Relationships and Sex Education: Issues of Cultural and Moral Diversity

This event is now fully booked. To be added to the waiting list please email events@bera.ac.uk.       In April 2018, the government announced its intention to make Relationships Education...

What next for Religious Education?

This seminar offers an opportunity for policy makers, practitioners, academics working in the field and other stakeholders to engage with differing research-informed perspectives on the Commission...

‘Prevent Duty’, Islam and Extremism Seminar – Mapping the Field and Future Projects

  This event is now fully booked. Please email events@bera.ac.uk if you would like to be added to a reserve list or be informed about similar events. Current initiatives in...

Challenging consumerism through education as human development

The culture of transforming everything into products to be ‘consumed by the market’ is manifesting itself as a global pathology. This trend is destroying longstanding communities of practice...

Faith-based education is (not) what we are talking about

Writings about faith and education tend to fall into particular longstanding debates about: the teaching of religious education in schools; the act (or not) of assembly; the use of religious texts...

Researchers drawing on teachers’ tools: Picturebooks with migrant learners

This blog post springs from a symposium I convened at BERA Conference 2018 entitled ‘Using creative methods to explore complex topics with young participants’. The symposium reflected my...

Integrating a parenting education programme into the primary and secondary school curriculum in Nigeria

All young children tend to misbehave from time to time, which makes it necessary for parents/guardians to step in with disciplinary measures. Although the need for child discipline is broadly...

Arresting ‘epistemic violence’: Decolonising the national curriculum for history

A renewed call to ‘decolonise’ the curriculum has marked a shift in thinking about education and what should form the canon of curriculum content (le Grange, 2016). It has been amplified...