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SAVE THE DATE! Further details will be confirmed soon. However, if you have any urgent queries, please contact us at: events@bera.ac.uk. Creativity is again re-emerging as an educational...
Data comes in many forms, some more accessible than others. At the recent BERA conference, I tried to address this with a poster presenting quantitative data in an unexpected way. The data came...
Continue readingBERA members, through informal conversation, recognised that there was a danger that qualitative studies may become under threat from not being approved by ethical committees in an increasingly...
Continue readingAesthetic education is usually concerned with the role of arts appreciation in students’ personal development. Its advocates often pitch it in opposition to instrumentalism, but in doing so,...
Continue readingThis blog post accompanies an article by McLain, Irving-Bell, Wooff and Morrison-Love (2019), in a political climate where an ideological interpretation of knowledge (Biesta, 2014; Muller & Young,...
Continue readingEarly Monday morning by Camden Lock: A well-trodden curved canal bridge A hairy, head-nodding willow Anchoring the in-between before another week ripples in Moorings Steadfast lock...
Continue readingHow ‘old school’ can it get? A text on the table and a small group of people around it. All have read the text, and gather to discuss it together. That’s the setting of a reading seminar....
Continue readingLars Geer Hammershøj is PhD and Associate Professor at the Danish School of Education, Aarhus University. He has published books and articles about the creativity in education, the Bildung...
Kirsty Devaney is a Birmingham based composer, researcher and educator with a passionate for promoting creative music making as something we all have the capacity to do. Her music has been...
Not all young people get to access arts programmes. For those who do, the benefits have been widely recognised (de Roeper & Savelsberg, 2009; Catterall, 2012). However not all young people...
Continue readingDr Kerry Chappell is a Senior Lecturer in the Graduate School of Education at University of Exeter (UoE), where she leads the MA Creative Arts in Education programme. She also leads UoE’s...
Dr. Victoria Kinsella is Senior Research Fellow in Education at Birmingham City University. Victoria has researched widely in the field of the arts education and creativity. She has worked on a...
