Researching Youth – Methods Seminar Series
Does your research involve working with young people? Are you interested in youth-led, creative or culturally-responsive methodologies? The British Educational Research Association (BERA) special...
Search
Refine results
Showing results 37–48 of 71
The ‘shadow education’ phenomenon
In research, educational services such as private tutoring, coaching and academic enrichment classes that operate outside formal educational institutions (such as schools) are commonly referred to...
Continue reading blog post‘To fit in at school, you have to be a robot’: Do care farms offer a viable alternative?
In a recent and yet-to-be-published qualitative study, I explored the possible contribution of care farming (the therapeutic use of farming practices) to young people’s engagement with learning....
Continue reading blog post
Youth and Informal Education Podcast: Discussing Impact, Evaluation and Accountability in Youth Work
In this podcast our panel of experts - Tania de St Croix (Kings College London), Sinead McMahon (Limerick Institute of Technology), Bianca Baldridge (University of Madison Wisconsin) and Louise...
Emergency remote learning in the UK: A comparison of March 2020 and January 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic has severely impacted everyday life around the world. In the UK, lockdowns have resulted in the closure of schools to most children for two prolonged periods: March to summer...
Continue reading blog post
Being active in play environments: The key to children’s health and wellbeing
Playground closures due to the ongoing pandemic have led to urgent calls for city councils and authorities in the UK to keep play spaces open. Parents and experts reason that home isolation has...
Continue reading blog post
The problems with resilience thinking
The Covid-19 pandemic has given new currency to the idea of resilience, in terms of adapting to and recovering from adversity. However, in recent years the discourse of resilience has become...
Continue reading blog post
‘The significant return to normality’: Back to school in England, but who is missing?
As part of the gradual lifting of lockdown measures in England, following the ‘second wave’ of the Covid-19 pandemic here, schools reopen wholesale today, 8 March 2021. For many parents and...
Continue reading blog post
Has there really been a decline in happiness among young people in the UK?
The Children’s Society published its most recent edition of The Good Childhood Report in August (Children’s Society, 2020). Concerningly, it reported that even before Covid-19 there had been a...
Continue reading blog post
Taking a year out? The ambitious teleology of higher education for cultivating a self-aware society
In the much-quoted Heraclitean aphorism, ‘the road up and down is one and the same’ (see for example Russell, 2004, p. 51), the pre-Socratic philosopher introduces a radical relativism and...
Continue reading blog post
Youth Work, Music Production and Measurement
Registration for this event has now closed, to register please email events@bera.ac.uk #BERA_Youthwork Online event – pre-registration essential This webinar explores music production as...
Thinking critically about impact, evaluation and accountability in youth work
Registration for this event has now closed, to register please email events@bera.ac.uk #BERA_Youthwork Online event – pre-registration essential A market-oriented rationality underpins the...
