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Taking stock of social theory in education research: Hybridity, methodology and critical reflexivity

In this talk we argued that educational researchers should consider more fully the ways in which social theory is utilised in contemporary forms of education research. At the centre of this...

Advancing posthumanist perspectives on technology-rich learning

Artificial intelligence in educational research and practice

Picture your favourite childhood toy. What was it? What did you learn from it? How did you know it was for you? These questions, and others like it, underpin the questions raised by posthumanist...

Cultural capital in non-White majority schools: A critical exploration of cultural ethos and pedagogy

Embodied cultural capital includes the artistic, religious, social and historical inheritance of non-White students. Cultural pedagogy and ethos is defined as the institution’s ‘official’...

Beyond Britishness: Learning to become agents of change

It is time for education and the school curriculum in countries with colonial pasts such as Britain to take the knee: to recognise that we – particularly the young – need to see ourselves as...

What can experiment tell us in educational research?

In education, we’ve put a straitjacket around our notion of experiment. We adhere steadfastly to what Parlett and Hamilton (1972) famously called the ‘agricultural-botany paradigm’. But the...

A Freirean resistance: Conscientização against the right-wing Escola sem Partido movement in Brazil

Over the past decade, attempts to micromanage teachers’ work within classrooms while also limiting their freedom of speech have increased and become a major disruption to Brazilian educators....

The increasing need to educate children about their rights: An outcome of lockdown measures

Many children in the United Kingdom, and elsewhere in the world, have been away from their regular school and early year settings, spending lengthy periods of time at home since the beginning of...

Exploring the application of Pierre Bourdieu’s capital(s) in survey research: Student participation in further education in England

Following engagement with Savage et al’s (2013) Great British Class Survey (GBCS), and subsequent criticisms of it – for instance, the selectivity of indicators of each capital (Bradley, 2014)...

The 10 books that made me a sociologist of education

Over a period of 45 years working in higher education I have accumulated a lot of books. I am now sorting through that accumulation and trying to decide which I will keep and which I will pass on...

Five education myths that Covid-19 shatters

Highlights from the first 1,000 BERA Blog posts

Education has been practised and conceptualised internationally in ways that demonstrate its increasing privatisation, enabled through a dependency on numerical data and an adherence to a social...

In a practitioner enquiry approach, is reflexivity the same as researcher metacognition?

The connection between metacognition and reflexivity might feel like a relatively academic link to make but, for the two of us, it is about securing practitioner enquiry in the teacher domain...

Cristina Costa

Assistant Professor

Cristina Costa is Assistant Professor in the School of Education at Durham University. She has a strong interest in educational and digital practices and inequalities. She particularly interested...