Breaking the cycle: The mediating effects of reading, mathematical and ICT literacy skills on financial success in youth

Financial literacy is crucial for young people as they encounter financial choices that can shape their futures. Decisions like investing in a college education, making purchases, or even buying a...

BERA’s 50th Anniversary

In 2024, we marked the significant milestone of our 50th anniversary. This occasion gave us an opportunity to honour our history while looking ahead to the future. Together, BERA made exciting...

Ethical citizenship and young people’s food choices

At a time of climate and ecological emergency, children are faced with a multitude of complex, interconnected choices through which they navigate. The introduction of a new Curriculum for Wales in...

Teachers are doing it for themselves: Developing Beach School approaches to support an effective climate change curriculum

Zac Goldsmith’s controversial resignation letter in 2023 was interesting for its ‘insider’ revelation about the apathetic attitude of the present political leadership towards the...

Is mathematics the same everywhere? Cultural affordances in mathematics education

Because of the Covid-19 crisis, the virtual synchronous and asynchronous instructional reality of the mathematics classroom has become more popular when compared to the time prior to the pandemic....

Students as the co-creators of the sustainability curriculum

BCF Curriculum Investigation Grant Research Reports

Developing an introductory course on climate change, social justice & sustainability

What are we educating for?

Although it has always been significant, the question of what we are educating for is now particularly important. There is growing consensus that the educational challenges we face require...

Editorial: What are we educating for? Introducing the BERA Blog Special Issue

This BERA Blog special issue started out as a seminar series in which we brought together policymakers, educational practitioners and researchers to discuss what we are educating for across the...

The politics of reforming secondary education

The biggest mistake of the 1997–2010 Labour governments was the failure in 2004/5 to implement Mike Tomlinson’s report on the future of the secondary education curriculum and assessment. In...

What could we be educating for in primary education?

We know that the primary timetable is overcrowded, testing is embedded in almost every year of a child’s primary schooling (Wyse et al., 2022), and expectations of what teachers must cover grow...

Women curriculum theorists

Feminism is a concept and a practice. As a concept feminism is polysemic, semantically contested, networked, interactive, powerful and dynamic. An important binary that has had real effects in the...

Nature connectedness through the arts

BCF Curriculum Investigation Grant Research Reports

Co-creating a curriculum to support pupil wellbeing in primary schools