BERA Bites, issue 12: Education and the environment

BERA Bites

Today, in 2025, as an Earthly community, we face the ongoing triple planetary crises of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste. Across the UK, and in many other...

Transforming curriculum planning with Sankey diagrams

Curriculum: Theory, policy and practice

Have you ever wondered how to gain deeper insights into the complexities of curriculum planning and to support data-driven decision-making? As an educator and researcher at ETH Zurich, I’ve...

Raising Critical Confidence as a root to knowledge of self

Curriculum: Theory, policy and practice

hooks (1994, p. 34) advises us to ‘renew our minds if we are to transform educational institutions and society so the way we live, teach, and work can reflect our joy in cultural diversity, our...

Neoliberal metrics and a curriculum for competence

Curriculum: Theory, policy and practice

Neoliberalism – the free market ideology of individual liberty and choice, combined with limited government interference in a competitive marketplace – has been a growing international trend...

School health and wellbeing, and national education system reform in Wales

Curriculum: Theory, policy and practice

The Curriculum for Wales prioritises young people’s health and wellbeing, with a strategic aim for all children in Wales to be healthy and confident individuals. Following national roll-out,...

The Curriculum Journal: Call for Associate Editors

This call has now closed. The Curriculum Journal (CJ), published by the British Educational Research Association (BERA), specialises in publishing original contributions to the study of...

Reframing health and wellbeing in schools: As pedagogy and as teacher identity

Curriculum: Theory, policy and practice

Since the publication of WHO guidance in 1998, policymakers around the world have sought to include health promotion within education, with schools in many countries now taking a Health Promoting...

The BERA–Sage Handbook of Research-Informed Education Practice and Policy

Out now! Order from Amazon, Blackwells, or direct from our pubisher, Sage The BERA-Sage Handbook of Research-Informed Education Practice and Policy, 2 Vol. offers an in-depth exploration of the...

The Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2029

The Research Excellence Framework (REF) is a cornerstone of research assessment in the UK, influencing funding, reputation and strategy across institutions. However, many researchers are still...

‘A pedagogy of avoidance’: Teaching controversial issues in conflict-affected southern Thailand

Curriculum: Theory, policy and practice

The current conflict in the Deep South of Thailand (DST) is reflected in centuries-long clashes between the Thai-Buddhist state and Malay-Muslim minority. Since the official...

10 years of the BERA Blog

This blog series celebrates one decade of the BERA Blog, as an important and growing space to explore current and varied issues and questions of concern to the education community. To mark this...

BERA journals announce Editors’ Choice Awards for 2024

Two of BERA’s journals, British Educational Research Journal and Curriculum Journal , have announced their annual Editors’ Choice Awards, recognising papers published in their 2024 volumes....