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Review of Education: Call for ‘State-of-Play’ special issues (2024)

Closes 30 Jun 2024

The editors of the Review of Education (RoE) intend to publish a number of ‘State-of-Play' (SoP) special issues during their tenure, which commenced in January 2024. They are therefore seeking...

BERA Small Grants Fund

Closes 15 May 2024

Through our Small Grants Fund, BERA awards funding annually to research on a different, pressing theme each year, with the intention that each project will: make important contributions to the...

Guest editing opportunity for Research Intelligence, issue 161

Closes 2 May 2024

Teacher education

Understanding and improving the wellbeing of postgraduate taught students: A longitudinal study

Research from around the globe has highlighted that university student wellbeing is lower than that of the general adult population (see for example Adlaf et al., 2001; Larcombe et al., 2014), and...

Parent engagement in school curriculum: Whose voices get heard?

Image by Freepik School curriculum has always been a contested space where parents, teachers and policymakers expressed their often-divergent views on purposes of education. Such debates...

Identifying tensions between school readiness policy and teacher beliefs, knowledge and practice in early childhood education

This blog post is based on my recent article published in the British Educational Research Journal (Kay, 2023). Using data from semi-structured interviews with two teachers, the paper addresses...

Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research, fifth edition (2024)

The fifth edition of BERA’s Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research has been revised and updated to enable researchers to conduct their work to the highest ethical standards in any and all...

A global goal but local challenges: Perspectives on education in the Global South

This BERA Blog special issue highlights educational topics in the Global South that require urgent attention if we want to reach the goal of quality education for all. The contributions illustrate...

The rise of private international schools and its impact on social justice in China

As of 2023, an estimated 6.7 million students were enrolled in about 13,600 international schools globally. Over the past decade, the global sector of international schools grew by a third, and...

Teaching Peru’s recent history of conflict in secondary schools: Exploring perspectives ‘at the margins’ and ‘from below’

For two decades between 1980 and 2000, Peru experienced a significant internal conflict, primarily involving the government and the ‘Shining Path’ terrorist group. This tragic period resulted...

Curriculum work and hermeneutics: A new paradigm for contemporary education?

Teachers’ curriculum work can be a controversial topic (see for example Priestley, 2011). It is a high-level concern for politicians, public commentators, parents and professional groups, and...

‘So I suppose they think I’m a failure’: How schools (unwittingly) marginalise white working-class families

BERA Conference 2023

This blog post relates to a qualitative research project focused on the engagement and achievement of white working-class students carried out in three comprehensive secondary schools in an inner...