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2025 BERA Academic Citizen of the Year

The BERA Academic Citizen of the Year is an award intended to recognise a colleague working in educational research who has made a significant contribution to the discipline as a whole and the...

Curriculum making: A brief history and future directions

Curriculum: Theory, policy and practice10 years of the BERA Blog

The term ‘curriculum making’ is becoming increasingly common in educational policy and practice. It is a concept with a long tradition in curriculum studies, going back to the foundational...

Awards Ceremony

BERA Announces the 2024 Academic Citizen of the Year

The BERA Academic Citizen of the Year is an award intended to recognise a colleague working in educational research who has made a significant contribution to the discipline as a whole and the...

Publications Committee

The role of Publications Committee is to: Ensure that BERA’s publications portfolio is well managed and upholds the highest academic standards Ensure the strategic direction of the BERA...

Decolonial and anti-racist perspectives in teacher training and education curricula in England and Wales: The Curriculum Journal Special Issue

This seminar provided an opportunity to hear from contributing authors to the recently published Special Issue of The Curriculum Journal, decolonial and anti-racist perspectives in teacher...

Decolonial and anti-racist perspectives in teacher training and education curricula in England and Wales: The Curriculum Journal Special Issue

This seminar will provide an opportunity to hear from contributing authors to the recently published Special Issue of The Curriculum Journal, decolonial and anti-racist perspectives in teacher...

Plenary Session – BERA Journals Meet the editors

Professor David Aldridge1, Dr Mutlu Cukurova2, Professor Mark Priestley3, Professor Stephen Gorard4, Dr Nadia Siddiqui4 1 Edge Hill University, United Kingdom. 2 UCL Institute of...

Knowledge, Curriculum, and Pedagogy: Universality and developmental difference across educational phases

Online registration for this event has now closed, please email conference@bera.ac.uk to register. #BERA_knowledge Knowledge - its definition, conception, theorisation and implementation in...

Knowledge, Curriculum, and Pedagogy: Universality and developmental difference across educational phases

Knowledge – its definition, conception, theorisation and implementation in policy and practice – is perhaps the most enduring and central element of curriculum research (e.g. Hirst,...

Teacher mediation of curriculum making: The role of reflexivity

The organic, complex and multilayered relationship between teachers and curriculum has been discussed for decades. However, that relationship has been rendered more crucial in recent years by new...

Teacher agency: What is it and why does it matter?

Highlights from the first 1,000 BERA Blog posts

The concept of ‘teacher agency’ has elicited a fair amount of attention recently, including a special edition of Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice. And yet, it remains an elusive...