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Citizen science projects are becoming increasingly important sites for researching the learning of adults. Citizen science is identified as offering: new ways to engage in scientific research; new...
Continue reading blog postI offer here a reflexive comment on the BERA blog. Its stated aim is: ‘to provide research-informed content on key educational issues in an accessible manner’, for ‘policy-makers, parents,...
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In an earlier BERA blog post (‘Voices in the Air’ 20th September 2016), Chris Husbands described the years that followed the 2010 general election as a “frenetic period of change in...
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Metacognition is a notoriously woolly concept that has been subject to much debate since its conceptualisation by Flavell in the late 1970s. This blog is the story of a journey to PhD completion,...
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Tailored around the relationship between teaching and learning, I argue that self-study of teacher education practices (S-STEP) offers a way of respectively prepare pre-service teachers for the...
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This study was inspired as a response to an Erasmus Mobility Grant to the Netherlands. Anecdotal conversations with colleagues there led to a discussion about the different approaches being taken...
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Over the last twenty years many writers, including ourselves, have drawn attention to the affective in educational organisations, including Fineman (1993, 1999), Hargreaves (1998a; 1998b), Beatty...
Continue reading blog postI have been pondering the effect of the neo-liberal economic and social world order on education and everyday life. In many ways the neo-liberal mantra is accepted as a kind of monolith – a...
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Since 2013, the Wales Institute of Social & Economic Research Data & Methods (WISERD) has conducted research with pupils, teachers and parents in 29 primary and secondary schools throughout Wales....
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Politicians and teachers find access to educational research problematic. Teachers call for open access to research journals and some national teachers’ councils provide this (Scotland and the...
Continue reading blog postMembers of the Early Childhood SIG are presenting the BERA/TACTYC Academic Review of Early Childhood Education, bringing together specialists in BERA and TACTYC (Association for Professional...
Continue reading blog postLearning about abstract concepts can be difficult due to the hidden nature of the phenomena of interest. Developing understanding about abstract concepts is therefore challenging because...
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