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Curriculum orientations and the inclusion of immigrant parents

‘Curriculum is – or should be – at the heart of educational practice’, wrote Mark Priestley and Stavroula Philippou on BERA Blog earlier in 2019. What is taught in school, how curriculum...

Editorial: Education for our planet and our future

I am fortunate to serve as one of two members of the BERA Council representing BERA members in Wales. This September, my fellow council members and I joined hundreds of delegates in attending the...

When walking on marshland, occasionally expect to lose your wellies

A consistent refrain of colleagues is that research ethics committees seem to be committed to stopping research. Nothing could be further from the truth. The contemporary research ethics committee...

Halting the rise of character education in Britain

Character education has risen up the political agenda in the UK in recent years, as it has in a number of other countries. The United States, Canada, Australia, Singapore, Japan and Taiwan have...

Children’s awareness and understanding of conflict-related groups in divided education systems

Over 420 million children live in conflict-affected areas (Save the Children, 2019). Conflict greatly disrupts education, with long-lasting negative effects even after peace agreements are signed...

Birmingham: A land of Trojan horses?

Birmingham has had many ethnic communities settling among its population, leading to the city becoming ‘superdiverse’ (Rex & Moore, 1967; Vertovec, 2007). British Pakistani children are close...

The experiences of teachers who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer (LGBTQ+)

The recent protests in England outside primary schools about teaching children about the full spectrum of relationships are a significant concern (Kotecha, 2019). Schools have a duty to promote...

Unexamined privilege and schools as sites of othering: Towards an ethics of commentary and debate

Despite years of monitoring and targets, the professional workforce of education, from early years to university, remains generally unrepresentative of the wider population that it serves, in...

BERA Conference 2019 to hear of new interdisciplinary study exploring the virtues underpinning ‘British values’

Much has been written, since the introduction of the duty on schools to promote ‘fundamental British values’ in the 2014 Ofsted inspection handbook, on the rights and wrongs of using education...

Lynn Revell

Reader in Educaton and Religion

Lynn Revell is a reader in religion and education at Canterbury Christ Church University where she has worked on the PGCE for Religious Education and Citizenship, and now leads the Doctorate in...

Sally Elton-Chalcraft

Professor of Social Justice in Education

Sally Elton-Chalcraft is Professor of Social Justice in Education, and is Director of the Learning Education and Development Research Centre in the Institute of Education at the University of...

The impact of the prevent duty on schools: What does the evidence tell us?

The UK government has become influential in the field of countering violent extremism (CVE), and Kundnani and Hayes (2018) document how its legislation and policy framework has been exported...