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Generative artificial intelligence and higher education: A double-edged sword

Artificial Intelligence in educational research and practice

The rise of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools has sparked significant debate within the academic community (for a systematic mapping review see Yusuf et al., 2024). These...

Higher-order versus lower-order thinking skills: How much does the hierarchy matter?

Curriculum: Theory, policy and practice

Bloom’s Taxonomy categorises educational objectives and provides a structured framework for teaching and assessing. Anderson and colleagues (2001) Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy (RBT) introduced two...

2024 Early Career Researcher Career Development Fellowship Recipients

The BERA Early Career Researcher Career Development Fellowship is a flexible package of benefits intended to support ECRs in the first three years following completion of their doctorate. We are...

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BERA and the Kusuma Trust: Neurodiversity in mainstream schools grant programme

BERA is partnering with the Kusuma Trust to deliver 4 research projects with the aim to improve the school experience and academic attainment of young people who are neurodivergent.

Anna Beck

Anna is a Senior Lecturer in Education at the School of Social and Environmental Sustainability, University of Glasgow (Dumfries Campus). She teaches across the MA Primary Education, PGDE Primary...

Enabling a research-informed approach to mentoring beginner teachers

The practice of mentoring beginner teachers needs to be underpinned by a ‘deep understanding of the curriculum, the relevant research base which informs it and their role in supporting its...

Reading Rita and saving Arthur Seaton: Exploring mature students’ scholarly ‘becoming’ and the failures of working-class education

I was thrilled to present my research at the BERA ECR Journey: At Crossroads of Becoming Conference at the University of Leeds in June 2024. This event gave me the opportunity to discuss the...

BERA announces 2024 BERA Educational Research Book of the Year Shortlist

The BERA Educational Research Book of the Year award celebrates the publication of educational research and is awarded to a scholarly book on education deemed to be high quality, engaging and...

What is STEAM?

Kerry Chappell, University of Exeter

The perceptions and challenges of East Asian students in UK higher education

Over the past two decades, the total enrolments in UK higher education (HE) from China, Hong Kong, Japan and other East Asian countries have risen from fewer than 100,000 in 2002/03 to a record...