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Globalisation and individualism: Implications for the inclusion agenda

Highlights from the first 1,000 BERA Blog posts

It is known that, over recent decades, societies around the world have witnessed drastic transformations that have affected various facets of people’s lives. These changes have created...

Why we all need liberating from education’s gender war

Statistics released last week show that almost half of all young people in the UK enter higher education. But some groups are still far more likely to go on to university than others.[1] Whereas...

Pre-Service Teachers’ Multicultural Competence: Is It just about Course Attendance?

With multicultural classrooms currently forming the norm in most Western World societies, teacher training departments are constantly challenged to produce multiculturally competent educators...

Teachers’ voice in the development of curricula for 21st century competences

In the last two decades, the terms ‘21st century skills’ and ‘21st century competences’ have been widely adopted to represent the ambition for an educational reform that will lead to a...

Why might BERA wish to thank Margaret Thatcher?

What does BERA owe to Margaret Thatcher?  It sounds like a weird pub quiz question, and may have an even weirder answer.  When BERA’s inaugural conference met in Birmingham in April 1974,...

White working class-boys: Teachers matter

I have been interested in the educational achievement of white working class students since the late 1970’s when teaching in very deprived parts of south London, left me feeling that something...

The Parlous State of Educational Research

When Donald Trump, the President of the United States of America, claimed during the recent presidential election campaign that his predecessor, President Barack Obama, ‘is the founder’ of...

“Proving others wrong”: how working class students defied the odds to attend an elite university

The proportion of students from disadvantaged backgrounds going to ‘elite’ universities in England has remained worryingly flat in the past decade, despite millions of pounds being invested...

Advances in cultural-historical theory

Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk for details of how to register onsite.A series of events over two days which aim to develop...

Framing the geographies of higher education participation: schools, place and national identity

How young people make choices about university, where and what to study has been a question asked by many social researchers, policy-makers and practitioners alike. Research has shown that when...

CHAT: Possible Futures – Advancing Research in Cultural Historical Activity Theory

Registration online is now closed. However if you would still like to attend this event please email events@bera.ac.uk.The aims of this one-day SIG event are to explore the diverse applications...

Socio-Cultural and Cultural-Historical Activity Theory

Fostering Insight and Innovation in Socio-Cultural and Cultural-Historical Activity Theory