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Shifting Perspectives on Nature through Pedagogical Practices

28 Oct 2020 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

#BERA_nolap Online registration for this event has now closed, please email events@bera.ac.uk to register. Come and join us as we ask critical questions around how we may combine science- and...

The right to protest: A children’s rights perspective on the school climate strikes

This episode of the BERA Podcast discusses the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the climate crisis school strikes, and how schools can work to acknowledge and facilitate...

Children’s reflections on home education during the Covid-19 pandemic: Implications for the return to school

Covid-19, education and educational research

As school leaders plan the return to school following the global pandemic, it is crucial that their educational decisions are informed by research into the everyday realities of enforced home...

A war for our world: Reframing the climate crisis

This episode of the BERA Podcast discusses the importance of re-examining what we value in education and our current educational practices as they relate to climate change.

Place-responsive pedagogy: The lessons learned from an old oak tree

This episode of the BERA Podcast is the first from our series "Education for our planet and for our future." In this episode Kevin Smith (Cardiff University) interviews Catherine Dunn and Jack...

‘PE’ with Joe (Bloggs): The rise and risks of celebrity ‘teachers’

Covid-19, education and educational research

Long before Covid-19 altered the way learning and teaching takes place, the subject of physical education (PE) was somewhat marginalised in the school curriculum. Within the UK, as elsewhere,...

The Importance of Nature: before, during and after Covid-19

In this mini episode Dr Tracy Hayes (University of Cumbria) and Dr Mark Leather (Plymouth Marjon University) discuss the importance of nature, outdoor learning and play before, during and after...

Moving with the times: Educational video games to improve children’s movement skills

Modern children are increasingly sedentary and spend an average of six hours a day in front of a screen (Barnett et al., 2018). This has a significant impact on the movement capabilities of...

Seminar: Where are the babies? Exploring outdoor provision for under twos

Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk for details of how to register. The event is being run by the Froebel Trust and is being...

Event bursaries 2020

The BERA Early Career Researcher Network offers a limited amount of bursaries to the value of £75 towards travel for BERA Student Members only to most of our events. This has now been extended to...

Walking and talking as and for methodological development

This collaborative blog was produced from discussions by attendees of the BERA Walk and Talk event held on 18 October 2019 at the Open University in Milton Keynes. The event’s aim was to...

Interdisciplinary, interactive climate change education: A STEAM approach

Education for our planet and our future

‘Climate emergency’ has been defined as the word of 2019 by the Oxford English Dictionary (BBC Newsround, 2019). Around the world adults and school children are realising that climate change...