Beyond postures: How yoga philosophy can foster non-violence in our classrooms

In A Sanskrit Dictionary, Monier-Williams (1899, p. 854) defines yoga as ‘an application of the thoughts, abstract contemplation, meditation, (esp.) self-concentration, abstract meditation and...

Adapting one-to-one reading support for children during Covid-19 school closures

Education & Covid-19: BERA Small Grants Fund research

Innovations and challenges among reading recovery teachers in Bristol

The fear factor: Children’s post-lockdown maths anxiety

Covid-19, education and educational research

Maths anxiety (MA) plays a role in educational disparities and the gender pay gap, yet it is not often addressed at the chalkface. Covid-induced school disruption may have made learning for...

Learning from lockdown: Experiences of autistic children and young people and their families

Covid-19, education and educational research

Research on the Covid-19 pandemic draws attention to its unequal impacts on differently positioned families, particularly highlighting the acute struggles of disadvantaged families (see for...

SENCOs, crisis planning in schools and the international problem of ‘off rolling’ or ‘grey exclusions’

Covid-19, education and educational research

In a newly published study (

Exclusion & the strategic leadership role of special educational needs co-ordinators in England

Education & Covid-19: BERA Small Grants Fund research

This report asks whether and how special educational needs co-ordinators (SENCOs) participated in Covid-19-induced school planning for lockdown, provision for vulnerable pupils and full school...

The experiences of autistic young people & their parents of lockdown & the reopening of schools

Education & Covid-19: BERA Small Grants Fund research

This report summarises findings of research into how families of autistic children and young people attending mainstream schools in England experienced and responded to home-schooling and...

High standards, not high stakes

An alternative to SATs that will transform England’s testing & school accountability system in primary education & beyond

Room to grow: Teachers, physical education and physical literacy

A quality physical education (QPE) programme is unlike the stereotypes of a ‘gym’ class often seen in popular culture. So, what should a QPE programme look like?

Emergency remote learning in the UK: A comparison of March 2020 and January 2021

Covid-19, education and educational research

The Covid-19 pandemic has severely impacted everyday life around the world. In the UK, lockdowns have resulted in the closure of schools to most children for two prolonged periods: March to summer...

The new model music curriculum: A step far enough?

In the foreword to the new model music curriculum, schools minister Nick Gibb states that it ‘is designed to assist rather than to prescribe’ (DfE, 2021, p. 2). Notably, there is much detail...

Call for papers for a special issue of RoE: Evidence on the development of education in ex-Soviet states

The editors of this special issue, Liudmyla H. Mashtaler and Nurzhamal T. Oshanova, are looking for substantial pieces of work on practical implementation, use of new methods and approaches in...