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BERA Conference 2023

12 September 2023 to 14 September 2023Aston University/ Conference Aston

Abstract Submission Deadline is 31 January 2023

BERA Conference 2023 – Call for Abstract Reviewers

6 Feb 2023 - 17 Feb 2023

Would you be willing to act as a reviewer for abstracts submitted to the BERA Annual Conference 2023? To be involved, you will need to: be a BERA Member be available to referee abstracts...

International music practices improving English language education

Language teachers use a variety of strategies while teaching. The focus and choices around such strategies range from pedagogical reasons and language development, to concerns around students’...

SIG Forum Meeting – Creativities in Education

Join the Creativities in Education SIG annual meeting to network with colleagues, learn about the activities of the SIG over the last year and plans for 2023 This meeting will be hosted online,...

Science communication: Creativity and empathy

My speaking invitations are normally limited to flies or dementia – it was therefore a refreshing change for me to be asked to talk about my teaching passion of science communication. It was a...

SIG Forum Meeting – Creativities in Education

Join the Creativities in Education SIG annual meeting to network with colleagues, learn about the activities of the SIG over the last year and plans for 2022 This meeting will be hosted on Zoom,...

Creativity as spaces of resistance & Anna Craft Memorial Lecture

This year’s Anna Craft Memorial Lecture is being given by Veronica Jobbins, MBE

Creativity as spaces of resistance & Anna Craft Memorial Lecture

As we emerge from a period of dominantly virtual events, this in person event aims to inspire and provoke conversations and action between delegates. Developed in response to previous SIG...

Collaging childhoods’ relationships 

In October 2021, the BERA Children and Childhoods special interest group (SIG) organised the webinar Transforming Childhoods’ Relationships, sharing seven doctoral research studies to explore...

Can we get generalist teachers to teach music? Yes we can!

Teachers in the UK need better professional development, especially in music education where the limited opportunities for training offered by teacher training providers have raised concerns (see...

Playful creativity

The playful academic

‘Intelligence is what you use when you don’t know what to do.’ (Attributed to Jean Piaget) Learning is often compromised by competitiveness (Brown & Vaughan, 2009). Bred from the...

Playful interventions: Measuring impact on learning

The playful academic

Figure 1: PMM tracking individuals’ understanding of ‘playfulness and me’ over the course of several workshops and a field trip. Red text was added before any workshops were...