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The Value and Meaning of STEAM Education and the Anna Craft Memorial Lecture

This event is hosted by four SIGs: STEAM Education, Creativities in Education, Arts-based Education, and Race and Ethnicity and Education Research.  It invites delegates to engage with a panel of...

BERA & Black History Month 2024

To celebrate Black History Month, throughout October the British Educational Research Association (BERA) will be highlighting a range of noteworthy contributions in our latest work promoting race,...

Reflections on the hidden curriculum of sustainability at the BERA 50th Anniversary Conference and WERA Focal Meeting

Curriculum: Theory, policy and practiceBERA Conference 2024 and WERA Focal Meeting

Attending the BERA 50th Anniversary Conference and WERA Focal Meeting in Manchester was a highlight of my year as an early career researcher (ECR) and provided important opportunities for academic...

The Value and Meaning of STEAM Education and the Anna Craft Memorial Lecture

This event was hosted by four SIGs: STEAM Education, Creativities in Education, Arts-based Education, and Race and Ethnicity and Education Research.  It invited delegates to engage with a panel...

BERA Conference 2024 and WERA Focal Meeting Keynote Videos

The BERA Conference 2024 and WERA Focal Meeting took place September 9th-12th 2024. This historic event brought together leading scholars, educators, and researchers from around the globe, and...

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...

2024 Early Career Researcher Career Development Fund 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...

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...

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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...