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Why we need a manifesto on education for environmental sustainability

Our research commission, recently announced by BERA, will bring teachers and young people together to co-produce a manifesto on education for environmental sustainability. The manifesto will...

The free school meal voucher scheme & children’s access to food during the Covid-19 crisis

Education & Covid-19: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports

With schools closed in the UK in response to the Covid-19 crisis, children who would normally receive free school meals were at an elevated risk of food insecurity. However, the voucher scheme...

The problems with resilience thinking

The Covid-19 pandemic has given new currency to the idea of resilience, in terms of adapting to and recovering from adversity. However, in recent years the discourse of resilience has become...

Reimagining creative research methods & collaborative relationships in the context of Covid-19

Reflections on presenting at the BERA ECR Network symposium, January 2021

A curriculum for wellbeing: Improving all aspects of wellbeing in curricula & schools

How should the wellbeing of both pupils and staff be integrated into curriculum development? This collection, edited by Victoria Pugh, presents answers to this question from a diverse range of...

Misled by short-term performance in lessons: Applying the science of memory in the classroom

Successful learning depends upon the functioning of human long-term memory (LTM) – a set of psychological processes that allow us to retain skills and knowledge over the long term, and which...

Spring 2021

Research Intelligence issue 146: Contemporary issues in mental health and wellbeing in education

BERA Bites, issue 7: Exploring the impact of Covid-19: Pedagogy, curriculum & assessment

BERA Bites

The coronavirus pandemic and its associated lockdowns upended our lives and presented challenges and consequences that were previously unimaginable. Teachers were flung in at the deep end with...

Stay calm and e-educate: Technology, education and mental wellbeing

In unprecedented times, maintaining education for learners across the spectrum has been a huge challenge, requiring educators to adapt quickly to online teaching and learning models. A vast array...

Stay calm and e-educate: Technology, education and mental wellbeing

#BERA_MentalHealth In unprecedented times, maintaining education for learners across the spectrum has been a huge challenge, requiring educators to adapt quickly to online teaching and...

BERA Bites, issue 6: Researching education & mental health: From ‘Where are we now?’ to ‘What next?’

BERA Bites

The mental health and wellbeing of learners and teaching staff rank among some of the most pressing issues facing education in the coming decade. Even before the Covid-19 crisis hit, there was...

How has Covid-19 affected the way in which teacher educators engage their students with learning?

Highlights from the first 1,000 BERA Blog posts

In this blog we seek to understand the impact that the sudden and enforced move to online teaching due to the Covid-19 pandemic has had on the perceptions of teacher educators in initial teacher...