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Autumn 2021

International perspectives on the curriculum Implications for teachers & schools Research Intelligence issue 148 The internationalisation of curriculum, and the effects of globalisation and...

Guests in someone else’s house? Sense of belonging among ethnic minority students in a Hong Kong university

An interest in students’ sense of belonging to their universities or colleges has been gathering momentum in research on student persistence at their chosen institution (Hausmann et al., 2007;...

‘We are the most researched people in the world’: Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith speaks at Cambridge on the project of decolonising education

On Thursday 3 June, Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith addressed the University of Cambridge’s annual conference at the Faculty of Education. Smith is ending her time as professor of education and...

Call for papers for a special issue of RoE: Evidence on the development of education in ex-Soviet states

Closes 31 Oct 2021

The editors of this special issue, Liudmyla H. Mashtaler and Nurzhamal T. Oshanova, are looking for substantial pieces of work on practical implementation, use of new methods and approaches in...

Melissa Jogie

Melissa’s research focuses on education and social justice, drawing from philosophy, sociology, psychology, and literature. She held a Visiting Fellowship at the University of Oxford’s Centre...

A positive attitude isn’t enough: Finding a balance with assessment

Reasons for the incorporation of literature into second language/foreign language (L2/FL) curricula are abundant. The most salient rationale is the promotion of a more humanistic education that...

Access to education in a time of pan(dem)ic in Jamaica: Rural and urban primary schools’ experience

Education & Covid-19: BERA Small Grants Fund research

As the scale of the Covid-19 pandemic became clear, on 14 March 2020 the Jamaican government moved teaching and learning online and primary schools remained closed for the remainder of the school...

Empowering marginalised parents to undertake home-schooling during Covid-19

Covid-19, education and educational research

The strains on the education system caused by the Covid-19 pandemic have forced many parents to have to contend with significant changes in their daily routines. A study of seven countries in...

SIG Convenor Vacancy – Comparative and International Education SIG

There is a vacancy for a sig convenor for the BERA Comparative and International Education SIG. The term is for May 2021-May 2024. If you are interested in becoming a convenor please submit an...

Why we need our world history teacher to be a Martian

‘In space, race doesn’t matter, nationality doesn’t matter. In space, you see the world as a globe and you don’t see the boundaries.’ Maggie Aderin Pocock, space scientist Figure 1:...

Access to education in the Caribbean: Dr Olivene Burke

In this episode of the BERA Podcast BERA Chief Executive Nick Johnson speaks to Dr Olivene Burke (University of the West Indies) about educational research in the Caribbean and her academic work...

Access denied: Education in rural India during Covid-19

Covid-19, education and educational research

The disruptive effects of the Covid-19 pandemic are borne disproportionately by already disadvantaged social groups. When all educational institutions across India shifted to online and distance...