Pedagogical space(s): The benefits of collaboration with forest school providers for the early years classroom teachers and pupils

Competing discourses in early childhood education and care

In 2022, the Foundation Phase in Wales will be replaced by the new Curriculum for Wales (CfW), a national framework for children aged between three and 16. One of its aims is to provide...

BERA Research Commission 2019/2020: Manifesto for Education for Environmental Sustainability (EfES)

The final manifesto from the BERA-funded research commission on environmental sustainability calls for sustainability to become a key feature of the curriculum, inspections and other...

Editorial: Spotlight on SEND: Curriculum design and practice

Spotlight on SEND: Curriculum design and practice

On 24 March 2022, the British Curriculum Forum (BCF) ran the Spotlight on SEND: Curriculum Design and Practice online event. The event focused attention on research-informed curriculum design and...

Hopes for the future: Presentation overviews and discussions from parallel session B

Spotlight on SEND: Curriculum design and practice

As chair of parallel session B for the BCF Spotlight on SEND event in March 2022, it was my pleasure to introduce the speakers and to field questions from the audience. In addition to the other...

Think like a detective: The vital clue to inclusive teaching!

Spotlight on SEND: Curriculum design and practice

To think like a detective gives teachers both a memorable metaphor for inquiry and a compelling methodology that leads to effective inclusive teaching. Like expert detectives, expert teachers...

Spotlight on SEND: Curriculum design and practice

On 24 March 2022, the British Curriculum Forum (BCF) ran the Spotlight on SEND: Curriculum Design and Practice online event. The event focused attention on research-informed curriculum design and...

The National Framework for Inclusion: Supporting inclusive practices in Scotland

Spotlight on SEND: Curriculum design and practice

Supporting student teachers and teachers to enact inclusive approaches in Scottish schools is a significant part of the Scottish Universities Inclusion Group’s (SUIG) work. SUIG is a...

All things inclusion: Presentation overviews and discussions from parallel session A

Spotlight on SEND: Curriculum design and practice

As chair of parallel session A for the BCF Spotlight on SEND event in March 2022, I was delighted to welcome our speakers and share questions from our delegates.  The session began with a...

Delivering on curriculum intent: Lesson study as a mechanism to enhance curriculum implementation and assess curriculum impact on pupils with special educational needs

Spotlight on SEND: Curriculum design and practice

Lesson study (LS) is a much studied, structured approach that offers the time and space for teachers to focus constructively on children’s learning and plan lessons collaboratively with...

How can we challenge assumptions about learners with SEND?

Spotlight on SEND: Curriculum design and practice

Life is determined by the normative. From the moment we are born, our weight, height and growth are tracked on charts that compare our trajectory of development with what is considered...

How much the price for inclusion in the English secondary history curriculum?

In response to written questions from Parliament’s Petition Committee on 9 March 2021, the then Minister of State for School Standards, Nick Gibb MP, made it clear that there was no plan to make...

Strengthening teacher networks: Decolonising secondary school history curricula

Race & Education: BERA Small Grants Fund research

The decolonising of curricula is a current issue in education, but the complexities and varying interpretations of what this actually means can present challenges and uncertainty. During a time...