Participation in recreational activities: views, experiences and choices from children and young people with cerebral palsy

  http://www.playwales.org.uk/eng/ ‘All children and young people have the right to rest, leisure, play and recreation and to take part in cultural and artistic...

Responding to disadvantage within English schools: a collaborative future

BERA Blog Special Issues: General Election 2017

For the last ten years, researchers in the Centre for Equity in Education have been asking why, despite continuous reforms, the most vulnerable children and young people in the English school...

Assessing the manifesto commitments on assessment: progress, improved accountability, or continuous assessment

BERA Blog Special Issues: General Election 2017

Educationists and teachers have long complained of policy overload, particularly during the Gove years when schools suffered a ‘policy epidemic’ with changes to assessment and the...

The politics of mental wellbeing and education

BERA Blog Special Issues: General Election 2017

Social and emotional wellbeing (SEWB) in schools has, over the past decade, emerged as part of a broader mental health agenda, shaped and driven through versions of childhood located in notions of...

The Matthew effect at election time

BERA Blog Special Issues: General Election 2017

The Matthew effect is an expression that has been coined to summarise the parable of the talents found in Matthew’s gospel (Matthew 25:14-30), which suggests that the rich get richer while the...

Challenges to Eastern European Roma and their teachers in the UK

The Roma are amongst Europe’s most disadvantaged groups, facing high levels of prejudice and discrimination. The largest population of Roma is in Eastern Europe; particularly Romania and...

Entrepreneurial School Leaders

This blog profiles an entrepreneurial Triad Model of School Leadership developed by three schools involved in the Erasmus+ project: Dame Dorothy Primary School, Springwell Village Primary School,...

Education Select Committee Review of Primary Assessment 2017: A Response

The Education Select Committee has concluded its review of assessment systems in Primary schools in England, with a brief to pay particular regard to changes rolled out in 2016. The report...

The complementary use of audience response systems and online tests to implement repeat testing

Getting students to engage with subjects which have a reputation as being inaccessible or difficult is a constant challenge many teachers face, whether at school or in higher education. This...

Critical Pedagogies: Are the benefits of alternative schooling being overlooked?

With increasing criticism of the English government regarding over-testing and high pressure in state schools, alternatives to early years formal education, such as practitioners of the Montessori...

Creative Writing through the Arts: BERA prize leads to ‘more and better’

In September 2014 teachers in primary schools in England began the academic year with a new National Curriculum. In this statutory framework there is a detailed 70 page programme of study for...

The digital home lives of young New Zealanders

International trends indicate that internet access is now widespread in developed countries around the world including New Zealand. So you may be surprised to discover that not all New Zealanders...