Learning loss or learning disruption?

Alarm has been expressed about the likely impact of Covid-19 on children’s academic achievement with terms such as ‘closing the gap’, ‘learning loss’ and ‘catch up’ permeating...

The BERA Blog: Highlights of 2020

BERA Blog end of year highlights

A warm and wintery ‘welcome’ to all our readers, wherever you may be. This time last year I wished all of you a seasonal ‘yo-ho-ho’, blissfully unaware of how 2020 would play out. Today,...

Winter 2020/2021

Digital technology in education Keeping pace with innovation Research Intelligence issue 145 Just as practitioners are struggling to keep up with the onslaught of new technologies entering the...

Who is Australian? Textbooks continue to exclude Black, Indigenous and people of colour from Australianness

Both the explicit and implicit messages that schoolchildren receive from their textbooks matter. My research focuses on race and national belonging and how these have changed from the 1950s to the...

National curriculum policy in Norway and Brazil

In an article recently published in the Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education, we compared how national curriculum policy, in Norway and Brazil, adopted the global logic of...

Reading during lockdown: Supporting vulnerable learners

Learning to read is perhaps the most important thing we learn to do. There is significant evidence that being a reader impacts on future social, emotional, economic and academic success. A failure...

Entanglements of writing and matter: Towards less human-centred practices

Over the last decade, the humanities and social sciences have become increasingly interested in the nonhuman (animals, plants, non-living objects) as having agentic and performative capacities. By...

Curriculum integration can support the development of powerful knowledge in education

On 20th March 2015, an article published by the Independent (Garner, 2015) claimed that Finnish schools had scrapped school subjects and replaced them with topics. Ever since then Finland has been...

Editorial: Teaching and learning in higher education for times of uncertainty

For higher education, Covid-19 has presented a particular challenge: having had to convert our classrooms to online platforms, higher education practitioners have faced the task of teaching and...

Urgent matters of insight: Upholding gaps in higher education research, teaching and learning for super-complexity

To date, Covid-19 has not only highlighted the interconnectedness of societies and individuals, but also that educational endeavours privileging the cultivation of particular human qualities...

Empathy and engagement from a distance: Three learning delivery options in an uncharted terrain

My understanding of the uncharted terrain that ensued from January 2020 in China and March 2020 the world over is that human in-person mobility and interaction outside homes has been completely...

Respecting the role of the physical body in teaching and learning

Covid-19 has shed light on the day-to-day life of teaching and learning. As parents began home-schooling and teachers adapted to innovative ways of connecting with students online, in our...