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BERA Conference 2023

12 September 2023 to 14 September 2023Aston University/ Conference Aston

Welcome to the BERA Annual Conference 2023 The programme is now live online. We have a fantastic array of presentations! The mobile app will soon be launched, which will allow you to favourite...

BERA 2023 Educational Research Book of the Year

Closes 31 Jul 2023

This award celebrates the publication of educational research and is awarded to a scholarly book on education deemed to be high quality, engaging and innovative.

Call for papers. New perspectives on curriculum: Rethinking collaborative enquiry and teachers’ professional learning

Closes 12 Jun 2023

A special issue of the Curriculum Journal to celebrate the 50th anniversary of BERA and the work of the British Curriculum Forum

Singing from the same hymn sheet? The Irish primary curriculum framework and convergences with global curricular trends

A significant milestone in Irish education history was achieved by the launching of the primary curriculum framework on 9 March 2023. Curriculum policy has been influenced by the prevailing...

Exploring open approaches to digital literacy

The notion of open educational resources (OER) was set out in the ‘Cape Town Open Education Declaration’ (2007), calling on educators, authors, publishers and institutions to release their...

The future of the artificially intelligent examination

In education, it is common for people to talk about the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in assessment as something in the future, but it’s not – it’s here, and it’s been working away...

Preparing children for the future: Robot programming in early childhood education

The field of early childhood education (ECE) has seen a rise in the use of programmable robotics to introduce coding, computational thinking (CT), and sequencing ability to young learners. While...

BERA Bites, issue 8: Toward a digital future of curriculum, pedagogy & assessment

BERA Bites

In the last three decades, digital technologies have become an integral part of our lives, societies and education systems worldwide. The Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns since early...

Editorial: To read, or not to read? How diverse practices, perspectives and experiences shape our reading engagement

To read, or not to read?

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...

Children’s perspectives and experiences of reading for pleasure practices in the UK

To read, or not to read?

Primary 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...

To read, or not to read?

How diverse practices, perspectives and experiences shape our reading engagement

Decolonial and anti-racist perspectives in teacher training and education curricula in England and Wales: The Curriculum Journal Special Issue

This seminar will provide an opportunity to hear from contributing authors to the recently published Special Issue of The Curriculum Journal, decolonial and anti-racist perspectives in teacher...