The issue of effectively engaging linguistically and culturally diverse students is one that preoccupies teachers and researchers alike, resonating across rural, suburban, urban, mainstream and...
At a national and international level, research on very low attaining pupils of secondary age is rare compared to younger age groups, and while there has been increased interest in the past decade...
In 2014, ReadingWise invited us to carry out an independent study of its Computer-Based Literacy Programme for Accelerated Reading Acquisition. Following exploratory meetings, schools and adult...
This blog is based on the paper presented in the EERA 2015 Conference Network Meeting. The European Educational Research Association (EERA) and its annual European Conference of Educational...
Social Justice SIG pre-conference event for ECRs The Social Justice Special Interest Group (SIG) held a pre-conference event ahead of this year’s BERA annual conference in Belfast. The event...
Following several conversations with recently qualified colleagues, it is alarming to me that many young educators have neither come into contact with, nor engaged with, the ideas of Paolo Freire...
The impact of globalisation on research ethics The ethical principles we draw on in UK Higher Education Institutions are Western-based traditions for moral action. However, on a practical level...
Pakistani children make-up a quarter of Birmingham’s school population and will soon become its largest pupil ethnic group. A large number of them leave the local schools each year without the...
This Innovation Session that took place at BERA took the form of a workshop/masterclass in researching early childhood using visual methodologies, combining presentations, graffiti and Information...
Theorising student transition Transition is replete within the human world. That is as much to say that it is impossible to entirely ‘stand still’. From one day to the next, one place to...
The English education system is riddled with contradictions and the call for teaching to become more of a research based profession is just one of them. This call raises a number of problems for...
Our BERA presentation, ‘Can Social Realism Do Social Justice: Debating the Warrants for Curriculum Knowledge Selection’, is based on a paper of the same title, soon to be available online from...