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BERA Bites, issue 2: Educational leadership: Are our schools fit for the future?

BERA Bites

The BERA Bites series presents selected articles from the BERA Blog on key topics in education, presented in an easily printable and digestible format to serve as teaching and learning resources...

Students experience empowerment and empathy through pedagogical partnership

Student empowerment can take many forms. Some, such as new student activism and student consumerism, can feel threatening to faculty and higher education communities. Others offer a...

Alternative ways of educating teachers to educate children differently: What do curriculum, assessment and pedagogy look like when ‘done differently’?

Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk for details of how to register onsite. This conference looks to bring together teachers,...

‘Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field’: Ethics and educational leadership research

This blog reports on the BERA event, ‘Ethics and Educational Leadership Research’, held at the Open University, Milton Keynes, on 28 March 2018. Carol Azumah Dennis’s keynote focussed on the...

The ethics of educational leadership research

Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk for details of how to register onsite.   Researching educational leadership can raise...

Researching the Curriculum in schools and colleges: Practice, Professionalism and Innovation

A BCF Event for schools, colleges and universities   This British Curriculum Forum (BCF) event brings together teachers, practitioners, researchers, leaders, managers, and academics to share...

Refocusing schools as ‘learning organisations’: A new direction for school improvement?

How are successful schools measured? By being judged ‘1’ by Ofsted? By excellent SATs or A-level results in a single year? By being popular with parents and having buoyant admissions? No. It...

Research methods for educational leadership: a professional perspective

This blog coincides with a special issue of Management in Education about research methods for educational leadership. This brings together six papers, resulting from two seminars jointly held by...

Survey dissemination, school hierarchy and teacher voice

Can we obtain a greater insight into management in schools by asking those whose are being managed? Given the widespread silencing or marginalisation of teacher voice (Courtney and Gunter, 2015;...

Using research to change educational systems: possibilities and barriers

The UK education systems are involved in massive reform programmes. These developments open up new opportunities for researchers to contribute to and learn from the changes that are going on. Yet,...

Living the dream through peer review

I remember reflecting on the experience of attending my first BERA annual conference as a doctoral student in 2008. More specifically, I can recall my initial perceptions of the educational...

The self-improving school system from the classroom out

When thought about at the level of the school or classroom, the self-improving school system involves teachers collaboratively engaging in evidence-informed practice to improve teaching and...