Phonological processing and mathematical achievements: A new look at the gender gap in mathematics

Phonological processing refers to an individual’s sensitivity to the sounds of a language, and the capacity to use these sounds to decode linguistic information. It is noted that phonological...

We need to talk about language: The researcher view

Coming from a background in community learning and development, my work in partnership with Banff Academy as part of my PhD research has been an interesting and rewarding experience. I find myself...

A Curriculum For Wellbeing

This event has now been postponed. To be kept updated on when this will be reschedule for, please email conference@bera.ac.uk. With more young people than ever struggling with their mental...

BCF Curriculum Investigation Grant

Closes 6 Jul 2020

The BCF Curriculum Investigation Grant is intended to support research led by schools and colleges with a focus on curriculum inquiry and investigation. The grant, awarded biennially, is worth up...

Curriculum coherence facilitates school development

The ways in which local educational stakeholders interpret and understand curriculum reform is crucial to its effects on everyday school practice (see for exampleSpillane, Reiser & Reimer, 2002)....

Education for Justice

Societies in many parts of the world are still dealing with the colonial legacy of educational systems that served a privileged few. Efforts are constantly made to redress the resulting historic...

Technology-mediated learning theory: A holistic and field-specific referent for the analysis of technology-enhanced learning

The recent 50th anniversary special section of the British Journal of Educational Technology (BJET) on ‘Developing Critical and Theoretical Approaches to Educational Technology Research and...

Exploring synchronous, remote collaborative interaction between learners using multi-touch tables in UK primary schools

Background Research strongly suggests that collaborative group learning activities build deeper and more transferrable knowledge (O’Donnell & Hmelo-Silver, 2013). Developing collaborative...

Co-teaching and 21st century pedagogy

Co-teaching provides a collaborative pedagogy in initial teacher education, whereby co-teachers share expertise to: improve the learning environment for students, and develop each other’s...

England’s computing curriculum: A clash of values, beliefs and purpose

How does industry’s participation in the creation of education policy impact upon what happens in the classroom? My recent ethnographic case study (Larke, 2019), of how England’s national...

Earth surface modeling for education: How effective is it?

Mixed or inconclusive results regarding the effect of computer simulations in enhancing students’ learning have been reported in the literature (see for example Edsall & Wentz, 2007)....

Curriculum is – or should be – at the heart of educational practice

New forms of national curriculum emerging worldwide have shifted the focus from input regulation – detailed specification of content to be taught – to output regulation – evaluation of the...