Curriculum

Encouraging inclusion of at-risk students through co-op video games

Every day, teachers face challenges with including students who are inactive participants in the classroom. Such challenges may involve social difficulties – such as shyness, disruptive...

Thorkild Hanghøj

Blog post2 Aug 2018

Linking environmental science to the curriculum for Excellence on an initial teacher training programme

The focus of Scottish initial teacher training programmes on numeracy, literacy and child development has undergone change over the last few decades, primarily due to the requirements set out in...

Bethan Wood

Blog post3 Jul 2018

Physical Education External Provision in Irish primary schools

External provision is developing as a trend in schools worldwide, and physical education is no exception to this trend – see for instance New Zealand (Dyson et al 2016), the UK (Griggs 2010,...

Jessica Mangione
Melissa Parker
Mary O’Sullivan

Blog post13 Jun 2018

The power of literature: Why literature teaching is about emancipation and social justice

This blog considers something that we all share – memories of reading literature – but its purpose is to promote and defend the place of egalitarian approaches to literature teaching in...

Andy Goodwyn

Blog post31 May 2018

Promoting children’s wellbeing, and right to make choices and engage in playful activities, in restricted environments through music and singing

In an era in which creative subjects are being squeezed in education, the role and value of the arts in health settings is increasingly acknowledged. The all-party parliamentary group on arts,...

Carolyn Blackburn

Blog post11 May 2018

The Higher Project Qualification: It doesn’t matter what you’ve learned. At the end of the day, it’s the grade

This article is part of the BERA Blog special issue ‘Researching the Curriculum in schools and colleges: Practice, Professionalism and Innovation’ (read more). When asked by two year 11...

Jenny Clements

Blog post27 Apr 2018

The making of the RE-searchers approach: Close-to-practice theorisation and conceptualisation

This article is part of the BERA Blog special issue ‘Researching the Curriculum in schools and colleges: Practice, Professionalism and Innovation’ (read more). This is the tale of two...

Giles Freathy

Blog post23 Apr 2018

Reply to Danielle Pée’s BERA blog post, ‘The Power of Relationships’, as applied to research ethics

This article is part of the BERA Blog special issue ‘Researching the Curriculum in schools and colleges: Practice, Professionalism and Innovation’ (read more). Danielle Pée’s BERA blog...

Alison Fox

Blog post20 Apr 2018

Researching the curriculum in schools and colleges: Practice, professionalism and innovation

Introducing a special issue of the BERA Blog from the British Curriculum Forum On 24 February 2018 the British Curriculum Forum (BCF) held its third curriculum event for teachers, academics,...

Gerry Czerniawski

Blog post16 Apr 2018

The power of relationships: Reflections on social and emotional learning programmes

At the beginning of the year, while I was mindlessly scrolling through my Facebook feed, I came across an interesting post from the headteacher of a school located in an affluent area on the...

Danielle Pée

Blog post5 Apr 2018

English teaching and the recruitment crisis: ‘Remembrance of times past’ – but considering times future

The English in Education SIG held its first research seminar on 15 February – an excellent occasion featuring Dr Simon Gibbons of UCL. Simon’s research has focussed on the history of English...

Andy Goodwyn

Blog post19 Mar 2018

Innovation labs as a means of preparing students for jobs that don’t exist yet

Professor Martin Boehm of the IE Business School says that in order to prepare students for the 80 per cent of jobs that will exist in 2025 but don’t exist today, traditional course content...

Carol Webb

Blog post15 Mar 2018