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Artificial Intelligence in educational research and practice

While Artificial Intelligence (AI), as an academic discipline, has been with us since the 1950s, knowledge of AI’s impact on formal education and all its stakeholders is in its infancy. To plug...

Better together: Research-practice partnerships in education

BERA Conference 2023

Research-practice partnerships (RPPs) are collaborative research structures which seek to improve children and young people’s educational experiences and outcomes, by synthesising the cumulative...

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

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

Summer 2023

Research Intelligence issue 155: Practitioner research: Development, collaboration & dissemination

Ethics and Practitioner Research

While BERA guidelines for ethical research do exist, it is acknowledged that the application of the guidelines is not always simple and straightforward. This event was an opportunity to discuss...

Ethics and Practitioner Research

While BERA guidelines for ethical research do exist, it is acknowledged that the application of the guidelines is not always simple and straightforward. This event is an opportunity to discuss how...

Values for practice: Living educational theory research

The purpose of this blog post is to highlight the importance of researchers bringing their own personal values to educational research and how living values – which demonstrate respect for...

Doing action research ethically

Depending on which literature we use, ‘action research’ may be defined in slightly different ways. Some researchers emphasise the iterative cycles of exploring an issue before developing,...

Looking to action research to bridge educational gaps caused by the Covid-19 pandemic: A Saudi perspective

In March 2022, schools reopened in Saudi Arabia. As an educator in higher education, the most noticeable change with my students was their preference for distance learning. However, my sister, who...

Meeting curriculum requirements while recognising the need for students to relate to texts

In 2010, a number of sweeping educational reforms were announced – particularly in English – where the likes of Byron, Keats and Dickens would firmly be re-rooted and restored to their...

Include, inspire, improve: The power of learner-led research

Learners are paramount as agents of change in education. They are the core reason educational experiences exist. Without empowerment and ownership of change, learners will not and cannot be...

Teaching and learning communities as a vehicle for developing action research

Over the past eighteen months, our teaching and learning community (TLC) has been working on an action research project designed to develop metacognitive strategies and cultivate self-directed...