Search

The right to childhood: What educators must confront in Gaza

As of April 2025, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics reported that 17,954 children have been killed in Gaza since 7 October 2023, with more than 39,000 orphaned and more than 7,000...

Call for book proposals: The BERA Guides series

Call for book proposals: The BERA Guides series BERA, in collaboration with Emerald Publishing, invites book proposals for new titles in The BERA Guides series. This series aims to provide short,...

The BERA Guide to Outdoor Learning

The BERA Guides: Critical Insights into Educational Research and Practice

Place-Responsive Pedagogy in Educational Research and Practice

SEND and education, health and care plans in England: In the fast lane to overtake 10 per cent

The Children and Families Act 2014 in England provided a major transformation to the system for identifying special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). Ten years on, the National Audit...

Call for book proposals: The BERA Guides series

Call for book proposals: The BERA Guides series BERA, in collaboration with Emerald Publishing, invites book proposals for new titles in The BERA Guides series. This series aims to provide short,...

BERA Educational Research Book of the Year

This award celebrates the publication of educational research and is awarded to a scholarly book on education deemed to be high quality, engaging and innovative.

Asking teachers to clean kids teeth is still a bad idea, and here’s why

As a qualified early years teacher, an academic interested in teacher retention, and also as a person who recently had an extremely decayed wisdom tooth removed at Birmingham Dental Hospital, I...

Head, heart, hands and bay: Transforming education through place

This year's tenth anniversary of UK Children’s Mental Health week took the theme ‘Know Yourself, Grow Yourself’, focusing on resilience, confidence and wellbeing. Sharing this, the...

The case for acknowledging teacher beliefs for effective multilingualism in primary schools

In today’s globalised world, classrooms are becoming increasingly multilingual. This development calls for a reevaluation of traditional monolingual teaching methods and a move towards...

Using Matryoska dolls to facilitate early years teachers’ reflections based on the Ecological Systems Model

This blog post focuses on my use of innovative creative research methods to explore the lived experience of GTCS-registered early years teachers in Scotland. As an early years teacher I am part...

A tapestry of love and trust in ethnographic research with preschool children

Embarking on a PhD journey is often likened to navigating a sea of uncertainties and self-doubt (Woolston, 2021). However, my research on wellbeing with preschool children has been a...

Children, Childhoods and Early Education

The Children, Childhoods, and Early Education (CCEE) SIG brings together researchers, practitioners, and students to explore and advance interdisciplinary understandings of children’s lives from...