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Guest editing opportunity for Research Intelligence, issue 167

This opportunity is now closed. BERA’s Publications Committee is seeking an individual or team (of up to three people) to guest edit issue 167 of Research Intelligence on the theme of...

From safeguarding to critical digital citizenship: A framework to understand educational responses to digital technologies

Over the past two decades, there has been a proliferation of debates on how to respond to the growing list of challenges posed by digital technologies. The educational responses proposed to deal...

Education in prisons across England and Wales: Towards a future framework for effective learning spaces

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What could learning spaces in prison be like? This question has guided our reflective research process, prompting us to reflect critically on existing practice and to create an emerging framework...

BERA journals virtual issue: Evaluating the worth of race, ethnicity and education over the last five years

Racism is a shapeshifter that adapts to silence minoritised ethnic voices, unless it is continually made visible. Race research therefore needs continuous development to challenge pervasive...

Editorial: Seeking a new paradigm for antiracist multicultural education

English society and its education system have been through several phases of multicultural education – beginning with the colourblind, then through multicultural and antiracist phases, and then...

Seeking a new paradigm for antiracist multicultural education

English society and its education system have been through several phases of multicultural education. The current context for race, racism and hope education was discussed by Vini Lander in her...

Teachers need to be racially literate to practise safely in our nation’s schools

To confidently address racial challenges in today’s schools, UK teachers must surpass superficial understandings of racism. ‘Racial literacy’ is the capacity to grasp how race and racism...

A view from the bridge: Educating student teachers for racial justice

BERA President Marlon Moncrieffe denounced the race riots of summer 2024 as ‘nativist’ and ‘acts of ugly violence’, but he remains sceptical of this Labour government’s willingness to...

Antiracist multicultural education for White children, teachers and parents too!

The purpose of this blog post is to highlight why it is imperative for White children, trainee teachers, educators and parents to have access to and engage with an antiracist multicultural...

Controversial issues in schools: A consideration for staff wellbeing

Minoritised teachers are less likely to stay in teaching than their White counterparts, citing the added burden of racism as a contributing factor (Worth et al., 2022). Ethnic minoritised staff...

White working-class children’s underachievement in England and Northern Ireland: Continuing challenges and implications for policy and practice to close the attainment gap

In the first decade of this millennium local government researchers in London and Birmingham, England, put their heads above the parapet to address the issue of White working-class children’s...

How effective leadership can tackle the out-of-school children crisis in Sindh, Pakistan

The challenge Across the world, 22.8 million children remain out-of-school. Pakistan ranks second globally for the highest number of out-of-school children. In the southeastern province of Sindh,...