Supporting quiet, shy or anxious Black, Asian and minority ethnic children with English as an additional language in the early years

Education, #BlackLivesMatter and racial justice in the UK and beyond

Many articles that have been written in relation to the Black Lives Matter agenda, state that education is key to improving Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) children’s life chances...

Education, #BlackLivesMatter and racial justice in the UK and beyond

This special series of the BERA Blog addresses the BlackLivesMatter movement and questions of racial justice in both the UK and beyond, as we celebrate Black History Month amid deepening...

Cultural capital in non-White majority schools: A critical exploration of cultural ethos and pedagogy

Education, #BlackLivesMatter and racial justice in the UK and beyond

Embodied cultural capital includes the artistic, religious, social and historical inheritance of non-White students. Cultural pedagogy and ethos is defined as the institution’s ‘official’...

Maths at the kitchen table: Capturing teacher and family voices on online teaching and learning in Covid-19 times

Covid-19, education and educational research

The Covid-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on everyday life across the world. In January 2020, we could not have imagined that in just a few months as many as 138 countries would...

Multimodal learning analytics: A promising avenue to measure cognitive load during online complex problem solving?

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, online learning in higher education is gaining in popularity more than ever. Since online learning is so prevalent, it is important that online courses offer learning...

Adapting to the new normal in survey research

Covid-19, education and educational research

Covid-19 has greatly impacted ongoing projects by causing disruption to the research process and delays in data collection, and in some cases research funding has been reduced or withdrawn to...

Justifying curricular enrichment in performative times

Much has been written about the tendency to narrow the curriculum to focus on what counts in measurable terms in testing times. This effect is felt most acutely in schools servicing disadvantaged...

Relationality as a way of rethinking makerspace research methodologies

In our recent article in the British Journal of Educational Technology, ‘Intra‐active entanglements: What posthuman and new materialist frameworks can offer the learning sciences’, we expand...

Renegotiating teacher identities: Reflections on student wellbeing and online learning during Covid-19

Covid-19, education and educational research

In response to the current Covid-19 outbreak, universities across Australia quickly moved to restructure the delivery of their courses that customarily took place on campus. We are both first year...

Ethics-in-practice in fragile contexts: The value of the CERD ethical appraisal framework

Educational research in fragile contexts At a time when unprecedented numbers of people across the world are experiencing forced migration, there is an urgent and critical imperative to develop...

Moving with the times: Educational video games to improve children’s movement skills

Modern children are increasingly sedentary and spend an average of six hours a day in front of a screen (Barnett et al., 2018). This has a significant impact on the movement capabilities of...

Is there a tension between teaching and assessing critical-thinking skills?

The widely varying quality of responses to the global Coronavirus pandemic presents yet another example of the importance of critical-thinking skills among leaders and the public dealing with...