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What are we educating for?
I would like to believe that our national policymakers for primary school education seek out the relationship between policy, research and practice. I’d like to think that to achieve this they...
Educators are well versed in reflective practice when it comes to pedagogy but less so when it comes to documenting research (Moon, 1999). Kelly proposes that the journal can be ‘an anchor,...
Meta-analyses can play an important role in educational research. Aggregating results from different, but comparable studies, to demonstrate average effect sizes can be highly informative....
Why is data related to time important for education research? Considering ‘time’ is a crucial issue for researchers of education because development and change are fundamental to understand...
On 12 May 2022, the results of the United Kingdom’s Research Excellence Framework 2021 (REF2021) were released. Generally known as ‘the REF’, this framework exists to assess and hold...
Introduction The growth, internationally, in professional doctorates over the past 25 years has been well documented, as are the forms, fields and disciplines that such doctorates embrace....
Working memory (WM) is a limited-capacity mechanism that temporarily stores information in the mind and manipulates it when it is no longer perceptually present (Cowan, 2008). WM abilities have...
The teaching workforce is looking increasingly unsettled, in a time when schools and students most need stability. The exigent nature of STEM teacher recruitment in England is hard to miss, with...
As academics working to ameliorate the impacts of climate change and environmental destruction through education, we often question the efficacy of our efforts. As higher education teachers, we...
Finding friends as an adult is really difficult. As a child it’s easy to approach someone, state your name, and ask if they want to play: sorted. As an adult such an approach might be frowned...
Teaching excellence has been at the forefront of policy worldwide (O’Leary & Savage, 2020). In the UK, the Teaching Excellence Framework, ranking tables and scrutiny from the Office for...
The BERA Educational Research Book of the Year award celebrates the publication of educational research and is awarded to a scholarly book on education deemed to be high quality, engaging and...
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