School readiness, early years education and neoliberal subjectivities

This symposium built upon BERA’s research commission, Competing Discourses of Early Childhood Education and Care, and critically explored why and how early childhood education and care (ECEC)...

Curriculum Making

This event has now been postponed. To be kept updated on when this will be reschedule for, please email conference@bera.ac.uk. Large scale national curriculum reform is a prominent feature of...

Threshold concepts and troublesome transitions

I attended school in the county of Staffordshire, England, and can still clearly recall starting Sixth Form as being one of the most significant periods in my life. Transitioning from the General...

Decoding computer models to advance mechanistic reasoning

Using models to understand how and why a natural phenomenon emerges is a fundamental practice in the sciences. Analysing the underlying components and interactions that generate a phenomenon is...

Escape from the Skinner box

Now that artificial intelligence (AI) is very much in the public eye, the issue of its use in education has attracted much attention, both good and bad. Within the context of education, one...

How research can inform teachers and teaching in schools

Despite renewed efforts in many countries to align educational practice more closely with findings from educational research, there is little clarity about how teachers can, in principle, use...

Yes, they can! Teachers and learners as language curriculum developers

In contexts in which English as a foreign language is a mandatory subject in secondary education, language learning motivation can be a challenge for teachers and ministerial curriculum...

Join the Curriculum Journal editorial board

The Curriculum Journal – BERA’s international peer-reviewed journal featuring original contributions to the study of curriculum, pedagogy and assessment – is refreshing the membership of its...

A Professional Workforce for the Early Years? Policy, practice and sector responses

Research Commission: Competing Discourses of Early Childhood Education and Care

This event is now fully booked. To be placed on the waiting list please email conference@bera.ac.uk including a contact phone number. This Seminar is the 4th in the Research Commission, Competing...

A Curriculum for Early Years

Research Commission: Competing Discourses of Early Childhood Education and Care

Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email conference@bera.ac.uk for details of how to register onsite.  This one-day seminar is the third in a series of...

The use of technology in education and its potential to heal liberated Iraq

While information and communication technology (ICT) has been integrated into education for the last three decades in many parts of the world, this has not been the case in Iraq. ICT was...

Towards ‘slow pedagogy’: Revaluing the reading seminar for professional development

How ‘old school’ can it get? A text on the table and a small group of people around it. All have read the text, and gather to discuss it together. That’s the setting of a reading seminar....