Concepts for climate change within secondary science

It is widely understood that climate change is among the greatest challenges facing humanity, and that knowledge of climate change should play a key role in the curriculum. As Singh (2021) writes,...

Designing online teaching curriculum to optimise learning for all students in higher education

Disruptions to learning and teaching in higher education during Covid-19 resulted in an abrupt shift towards online curricula (Salas-Pilco et al., 2022). This presented a range of concerns and...

The teaching of problem solving in the school mathematics curriculum

Introduction School mathematics curricula across the world give ‘problem solving’ a high profile, but what exactly does ‘problem solving’ mean? Can it be taught; and, if it can, how can...

Call for reviewers for landmark BERA & BCF publication

BERA and the British Curriculum Forum (BCF) are currently editing an exciting landmark publication, Curriculum in a changing world: 50 think pieces on education policy, practice, innovation &...

Household curricula during the Covid-19 pandemic: A collective biography

The lessons learned through Covid-19 school disruptions have amplified calls to envision education in ways that respond to unpredictable crises and finally redress educational inequities that have...

The easy option: How the Ruskin Speech has become a cipher for change in British education

When compared with educational systems around the world, Britain is notable for directing a high degree of ‘policy churn’ (that is, new initiatives emerging from central government) towards...

BERA Educational Research Book of the Year

This award celebrates the publication of educational research and is awarded to a scholarly book on education deemed to be high quality, engaging and innovative.

Singing from the same hymn sheet? The Irish primary curriculum framework and convergences with global curricular trends

A significant milestone in Irish education history was achieved by the launching of the primary curriculum framework on 9 March 2023. Curriculum policy has been influenced by the prevailing...

Preparing children for the future: Robot programming in early childhood education

The field of early childhood education (ECE) has seen a rise in the use of programmable robotics to introduce coding, computational thinking (CT), and sequencing ability to young learners. While...

Exploring open approaches to digital literacy

The notion of open educational resources (OER) was set out in the ‘Cape Town Open Education Declaration’ (2007), calling on educators, authors, publishers and institutions to release their...

BERA Bites, issue 8: Toward a digital future of curriculum, pedagogy & assessment

BERA Bites

In the last three decades, digital technologies have become an integral part of our lives, societies and education systems worldwide. The Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns since early...

Editorial: To read, or not to read? How diverse practices, perspectives and experiences shape our reading engagement

To read, or not to read?

What children say about books: 'I can drain all my emotions out on the book, so if I’ve had a hard day, I can just read’ ‘It’s quite nice to sort of feel like you’re sort of letting go...