Spotlight on SEND: Curriculum Design and Practice
This British Curriculum Forum (BCF) event brought together teachers, practitioners, researchers, leaders, managers, and academics to share their critical perspectives and assumptions about...
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Spotlight on SEND: Curriculum Design and Practice
Online registration has now closed for this event, to register please email events@bera.ac.uk. This British Curriculum Forum (BCF) event brings together teachers, practitioners,...
Schooling, innovation and community
Recently, I discovered some chapters that I had drafted in the early 1980s. These arose from a study of teachers at Bridgewater Hall, the first secondary school on Stantonbury Campus in Milton...
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Spring 2022
Education for environmental sustainability Research Intelligence issue 150 This 150th issue of Research Intelligence reflects and builds upon the renewed focus on education for environmental...
Thoughts on the inspection of early reading
Providers of initial teacher training (ITT) in England are inspected by the Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted). As members of a university ITT primary English team, we were prompted to...
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Forest School and its place within a Covid-recovery curriculum
With the easing of pandemic-related restrictions for UK schools, educators’ focus has turned to mitigating the impacts of Covid-19 on children’s learning and wellbeing (see Kumar Jha & Arora,...
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Knowledge about what? ‘The knowledge question’ in the Norwegian curriculum
A fundamental question in education is, ‘What is most worth teaching and learning?’ A variation of this question can be directed from student to teacher: ‘Why should we learn this?’...
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The ‘shadow education’ phenomenon
In research, educational services such as private tutoring, coaching and academic enrichment classes that operate outside formal educational institutions (such as schools) are commonly referred to...
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What is the purpose of school and who should control it?
We all learned at school Churchill’s comment that ‘democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time’ (quoted in Langworth,...
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Call for papers: Decolonial and anti-racist perspectives in teacher training and education curricula in the UK
A special issue of the Curriculum Journal
Why Wales has a head start in the future of post-16 education in the UK and internationally
Wales is currently in the middle of a curriculum and qualifications reform. Since 2015, ‘pioneer’ schools across the principality have been contributing to the development of a new national...
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Relative age and the early years foundation stage profile
Who is attributed a ‘good level of development’ – and what might this tell us about how ‘good’ the EYFSP is?
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