Connecting and the Curriculum: Reflections from Northern Ireland on joining the dots

Reimagining a curriculum for teacher knowledge

As a teacher educator in Northern Ireland I was privileged to reflect about connecting learning, connecting times and cultures and, not least, connecting people, at the recent ‘Re-imagining a...

Using mentoring and coaching to focus on the curriculum in action

Reimagining a curriculum for teacher knowledge

As changes in the curriculum appear on the horizon it is essential for teachers and school leaders to engage critically and constructively with the opportunities and tensions that emerge. Teachers...

Are you experienced?

Reimagining a curriculum for teacher knowledge

'An honest engagement with Dewey’s theory of experience can provide educators with useful questions about how to create meaningful educational experiences.'

What do teachers need to know to be able to teach? How and when do teachers learn?

Reimagining a curriculum for teacher knowledge

By considering responses to these questions we can offer starting points for the construction of a curriculum for teacher knowledge.

Editorial: Reimagining a curriculum for teacher knowledge

Reimagining a curriculum for teacher knowledge

Introducing a special issue of the BERA Blog that offers insights into a new curriculum for teacher knowledge that's fit for the 21st century.

Remaking the curriculum of early-career teacher education

Reimagining a curriculum for teacher knowledge

As attention in England turns to the Early Career Framework, four expert authors consider the recent progress made in advancing professional learning in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.

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...

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...