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BERA Conference 2023 – Call for Abstract Reviewers

Would you be willing to act as a reviewer for abstracts submitted to the BERA Annual Conference 2023? To be involved, you will need to: be a BERA Member be available to referee abstracts...

The Russian war in Ukraine: The role of the education sector

This blog post is a summary of the discussion that took place during the recent BERA event dedicated to Ukraine: ‘The voice of Ukrainian Educational Research Association across borders or is...

SIG Forum Meeting – Social Theory and Education

Join the Social Theory and Education SIG annual meeting to network with colleagues, learn about the activities of the SIG over the last year and plans for 2023. This meeting will be hosted...

‘Learning for All’

BERA is funding six new small grants in 2022/23 under the title “Learning for all”. These grants support projects which examine educational provision in its widest sense that seeks to provide...

Social theory as critical pedagogy: Book launch of Social theory: A new introduction

Online registration has now closed for this event, to register please email events@bera.ac.uk.   This BERA event launches the new textbook ‘Social theory a new introduction’. Written by...

Social theory as critical pedagogy: Book launch of Social theory: A new introduction

This BERA event launches the new textbook ‘Social theory a new introduction’. Written by Mark Murphy and published by Palgrave, the book delivers a thematic and conceptual overview of the...

The BERA Blog: Highlights of 2021

BERA Blog end of year highlights

Yuletide greetings and festive cheer to all our readers and authors, wherever you may be. In these challenging times we thank all of you for your continued support of and engagement with the BERA...

Rent strikes and the continuing relevance of Paulo Freire at 100

Against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic, student rent strikes took place in many universities in England. Lockdowns and moves to online learning meant that students were at times required to...

Loneliness and collegiality in the academy: Isolated by a neoliberal ideology

The problems of loneliness and isolation are often raised in academia. How can we understand loneliness and respond to it within the academic community of our time? I suggest that the ideology of...

Against empiricism

As educational researchers, our work is framed and therefore requires us to operate with and through a general theory of objects and object-relations. This enframing comprises a semantic...

Social justice through non-violence: Not purely an intellectual endeavour

The issue of ‘violence-based inequality’ is a philosophical one that translates into more practical issues. In using this term, I borrow from Judith Butler’s The Force of Non-Violence (2020)...

The Chinese language classroom as a pedagogic emancipatory space: Cultural capital in multilingual Australia

Languages education plays a central role in constructing hegemony and boundaries, while also being commodified as a technical skill with symbolic added value in the globalised new economy (Heller...