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Augmented reality (AR) books offer new opportunities for interaction and engagement, augmenting a traditional paper book with digital features such as animations, sounds and graphics to provide a...
Continue reading blog postAdolescence is a significant period of identity development and social exploration, and narrative fiction can help adolescent readers to explore personally meaningful content (Picton & Clark,...
Continue reading blog postHow diverse practices, perspectives and experiences shape our reading engagement
What children say about books: 'I can drain all my emotions out on the book, so if I’ve had a hard day, I can just read’ ‘It’s quite nice to sort of feel like you’re sort of letting go...
Continue reading blog postPrimary school curricula across the UK highlight the importance of reading for pleasure, for example: ‘The National Curriculum for England aims to ensure that all pupils: develop the habit of...
Continue reading blog postReading to Dogs (RTD), which involves children reading to a registered dog (accompanied by a handler), is becoming increasingly popular in schools. Benefits to wellbeing and reading engagement are...
Continue reading blog postWhen teaching literacy in primary schools, it is essential that the books purchased and used reflect the rich and diverse society we live in, which means ensuring sufficient representation. In...
Continue reading blog postWould you be willing to act as a reviewer for abstracts submitted to the BERA Annual Conference 2023? To be involved, you will need to: be a BERA Member be available to referee abstracts...
Join the Children and Childhoods SIG annual meeting to network with colleagues, learn about the activities of the SIG over the last year and plans for 2023 This meeting will be hosted online,...
A balloon depicting President Donald Trump in the guise of a baby was inflated in Parliament Square in London on 13 July 2018. As the central image of the street protests during Trump’s visit to...
Continue reading blog postBERA is funding six new small grants in 2022/23 under the title “Learning for all”. These grants support projects which examine educational provision in its widest sense that seeks to provide...
Where is the love in special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) policy? Politicising love, as a force for driving social justice and change, has deep roots in Black feminist activism (Nash,...
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