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Hopes for the future: Presentation overviews and discussions from parallel session B

As chair of parallel session B for the BCF Spotlight on SEND event in March 2022, it was my pleasure to introduce the speakers and to field questions from the audience. In addition to the other...

Editorial: Spotlight on SEND: Curriculum design and practice

On 24 March 2022, the British Curriculum Forum (BCF) ran the Spotlight on SEND: Curriculum Design and Practice online event. The event focused attention on research-informed curriculum design and...

How much the price for inclusion in the English secondary history curriculum?

In response to written questions from Parliament’s Petition Committee on 9 March 2021, the then Minister of State for School Standards, Nick Gibb MP, made it clear that there was no plan to make...

Evidence-based practice in schools: What’s really going on?

Improving educational outcomes through high-quality provision is one of the main aims of education systems across the world. Over recent decades there has been a concerted move by policymakers in...

Strengthening teacher networks: Decolonising secondary school history curricula

Race & Education: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports

The decolonising of curricula is a current issue in education, but the complexities and varying interpretations of what this actually means can present challenges and uncertainty. During a time...

Food banks in schools and the ‘cost of living’ crisis

In the UK, over 2.6 million children experience food insecurity, which is defined as those who have limited or unreliable access to food due to a lack of financial resources (Power et al., 2020;...

‘Challenging’ reflexivity in the transition between practicums: A practical and gamified approach to embed ‘big ideas’ into the teacher education curriculum

Like all teacher educators in England, we are conscious that our practice is increasingly located in turbulent and changing political and managerial landscapes for teacher education (see Murtagh &...

Spotlight on SEND: Curriculum Design and Practice

Online registration has now closed for this event, to register please email events@bera.ac.uk.   This British Curriculum Forum (BCF) event brings together teachers, practitioners,...

Spotlight on SEND: Curriculum Design and Practice

This British Curriculum Forum (BCF) event brought together teachers, practitioners, researchers, leaders, managers, and academics to share their critical perspectives and assumptions about...

Schooling, innovation and community

Recently, I discovered some chapters that I had drafted in the early 1980s. These arose from a study of teachers at Bridgewater Hall, the first secondary school on Stantonbury Campus in Milton...

Spring 2022

Education for environmental sustainability Research Intelligence issue 150 This 150th issue of Research Intelligence reflects and builds upon the renewed focus on education for environmental...

Thoughts on the inspection of early reading

Providers of initial teacher training (ITT) in England are inspected by the Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted). As members of a university ITT primary English team, we were prompted to...