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BERA Conference 2023
The reference to ‘public executions’ in the title of this blog post is a quote from a research participant who was describing his experience of what happens when someone is caught bullying in...
BERA Bites
This BERA Bites collection started out as a seminar series in which policymakers, educational practitioners and researchers came together to discuss what we are educating for across the English...
BERA Conference 2023
Student voice has become increasingly prominent within educational research and practice, with many international curricula mandating for the enactment of student voice practices within the...
Research Intelligence issue 158: Unheard voices: Language education outside the mainstream
Research Intelligence23 Feb 2024
Today’s superdiverse educational landscape, marked by a global teacher shortage crisis worsened by Covid-19, heightens the demand for educators, especially in countries like Australia and the...
Globally, there is a growing focus on school-based teacher education models (Lunenberg et al., 2014). The ‘pendulum swing’ between theory and practice has made schools and teachers far more...
BERA Conference 2023
It is well known that spending time in nature is beneficial for children (Chawla, 2015). However, in Britain, children now spend less time outside than previous generations (Moss, 2012), which has...
BERA Conference 2023
Trying to secure funding for a PhD analysing primary school food education policy in England, I stumbled upon the BERA PhD fund and made it to the final three candidates. Although ultimately...
BERA Council has agreed to establish an expert panel to investigate the situation regarding funding for educational research in the UK. David James (Cardiff University, and chair of the REF 2021...
Ongoing project
BERA Conference 2023
This pilot study sought to identify relationships between primary pupils’ personality profiles and their patterns of interaction during small group collaboration. In UK classrooms, pupils often...
At a time of climate and ecological emergency, children are faced with a multitude of complex, interconnected choices through which they navigate. The introduction of a new Curriculum for Wales in...
In this blog post I report on research exploring the use of mixed-attainment pairs in primary mathematics lessons in south-east England. Research into mixed-attainment learning is limited; as a...