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Creativity in 21st Century Education: Where, how and what next?

22 Jun 2021 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm

#BERA_Creativities @BERA_News Contextualised by the Durham Commission in 2019, and the pedagogic challenges generated during 2020, creativity is re-emerging as an educational imperative which is...

Remote, distant but connected: Using walking and talking as PhD researchers during Covid-19

In this blog post we aim to share our experiences of the BERA Walk and Talk at a Distance event, and demonstrate how remote walking and talking events have the potential to relieve the isolation...

Anna Craft Creativities in Education Prize 2020

BERA Creativities SIG Co-convenors: Associate Professor Kerry Chappell, Dr Jo Trowsdale & Dr Victoria Kinsella are delighted to announce that the Anna Craft Prize for 2020 has been awarded to Jane...

Advancing posthumanist perspectives on technology-rich learning

Picture your favourite childhood toy. What was it? What did you learn from it? How did you know it was for you? These questions, and others like it, underpin the questions raised by posthumanist...

English instrumental music teaching: A model for authentic learning

Covid-19, education and educational research

At the time of writing, as we move through the Covid-19 pandemic, most children in the UK have been away from school for nearly half a year, no end-of-year public examinations have taken place,...

Anna Craft Creativities in Education Prize

The Anna Craft Creativities in Education Prize is named for Anna Craft (1961-2014) who championed the role of creativity in education

Finding a new path: Building affective online learning spaces for creative writing and arts practice

While we have seen a justified focus upon schools during the Covid-19 crisis, relatively little attention has been paid to how teacher-educators are adjusting their practice. In the UK in...

Typing aloud

In common with most teacher educators, I am a big fan of classroom talk. I continually stress to my English subject trainee teachers the huge value of the spoken word and invite them to be...

Storying identities, experiences and agency of graduate teaching assistants

Framing research: Theories, concepts and reflexivity in educational research

‘Have you thought about including recordings of these stories as part of your thesis? It’s just that reading them out loud was really powerful for those of us listening.’ I stopped. To be...

Covid-19 and schooling for uncertainty

Covid-19, education and educational research

Covid-19 reveals an urgent need to focus on an area of worldwide educational significance: the importance for schools of engaging with uncertainty as a key facet of education. In recent decades, a...

Lessons for adapting home learning from parents with children with special educational needs

Covid-19, education and educational research

‘Doing less, making learning fun and looking after everyone’s wellbeing’

Learning progression in the humanities: Identifying tensions in articulating progression in the humanities in Wales

Re‐educating the nation? The development of a new curriculum for Wales

The current curriculum reforms in Wales (Welsh Government, 2020) represent a significant shift in thinking and organisation. As well as the introduction of the ‘four purposes’ to drive...