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...

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...

Investigating ‘twice exceptionality’ in English secondary schools

‘Twice-exceptionality’ describes high-functioning individuals who also have a disability or learning difficulty that demands additional support. Twice-exceptional (2E) students may display...

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...

Race, higher education and special educational needs and disabilities

Race & Education: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports

This pilot study drew on survey data of 224 students at a London-based university, with the aim of identifying ecological niches that might cause disadvantage and discrimination for Black, Asian...

Ethnicity & the early years workforce: A census of staff in maintained nursery schools in England

Race & Education: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports

This study, supported by BERA's Small Grants Fund (SGF), surveyed ethnicity across staff working in maintained nursery schools (MNSs) in England.  The project aimed to gather a robust...

Post-truth teachers

Teaching is values-based and complex. While theory and research within the field of education is contested, we require high-quality teachers who exercise professional judgement in deciding what...

Don’t look up: Ignoring the looming crisis in public education

In the movie satire Don’t Look Up, a deadly comet threatens to hit earth. Two astronomers recognise the impending disaster, but their warnings remain unheeded. The US President, experts and the...

‘Challenging’ reflexivity in the transition between practicums: A practical and gamified approach to embed ‘big ideas’ into the teacher education curriculum

Like all teacher educators in England, we are conscious that our practice is increasingly located in turbulent and changing political and managerial landscapes for teacher education (see Murtagh &...

‘Shut up and leave me alone’: Why schools need to be places of belonging

‘Shut up and leave me alone’ were the only words that 10-year-old refugee ‘Aisha’ could find to say in English after three weeks in her school. She was the outsider who didn’t...

HE Education Research Census 2022

The UK-wide census of all HE-based education researchers has just been launched. It is a nationwide census examining the characteristics, experiences and attitudes of education researchers...

Summer 2022

Pandemic, protests, recovery, opportunities: Repositioning of educational research, teaching & learning  Research Intelligence issue 151 This second decade of the 21st century continues to...