Post-truth teachers
Teaching is values-based and complex. While theory and research within the field of education is contested, we require high-quality teachers who exercise professional judgement in deciding what...
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A Virtual Journal Club Meeting
Online registration has now closed, please email events@bera.ac.uk to register. As practitioner researchers we are keen to support modes of professional development that empower teachers and...
Practitioner Research SIG Convenor Vacancy
Call for SIG Convenor This Practitioner Research SIG focuses upon issues arising from not only carrying out and, supporting others in carrying out practitioner research, but also offers spaces to...
A scholarly sojourn in autoethnography, or just navel gazing?
Autoethnography is a qualitative research approach that has been creating ripples within the contemporary academic context for some time, revealing a mixture of excitement and suspicion but also...
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Reflecting on ethical dilemmas as a teacher-researcher: Taking a virtues-based stance
Insider forms of research typically present unexpected and ongoing ethical dilemmas for a researcher. These dilemmas often stem from pre-existing and ongoing working relationships with...
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Music teachers are curriculum designers
It is fair to say that the model music curriculum has caused quite a stir in music classrooms in England. A national curriculum already exists for music, and while it is only statutory for around...
Continue reading blog postPractitioner Research Highlights at Twilight
Online registration for this event has now closed, please email events@bera.ac.uk to register. #BERA_Practitioner @BERANews This event acts as an opportunity for the Practitioner Research...
Practitioner Research Highlights at Twilight
This event acts as an opportunity for the Practitioner Research SIG to meet and hear about the latest work being undertaken by practitioners in an encouraging and supportive environment. We are...
To EdD or not to EdD: Why is the Doctor of Education programme becoming increasingly popular among educational professionals?
The EdD has become increasingly popular as the route to a doctorate for the educational professional. When we embarked on our own EdDs some years ago there were not too many to choose from; now...
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What’s in a name? The rise of the practitioner academic and time to reconsider standardised induction support
Fuelled by rapid growth in degree apprenticeships and the number of public services requiring mandatory higher education (HE) qualifications, there is a significant and ongoing rise in the number...
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Supporting teachers who have trained during the pandemic to thrive in their first year of teaching: A guide for secondary schools
Everyone who has worked in schools and in initial teacher education (ITE) will remember 2020–21 as one of significant disruption and challenge, and none more so than those whose professional...
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Content and language integrated learning and extensive processing instruction: A useful partnership for language teaching?
The teaching of modern foreign languages (MFL) in English secondary schools is generally accepted to be in crisis. Entries for GCSE, A-level and university degrees have steadily declined. Even...
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