Child-friendly research in the early years
This article is part of the BERA Blog special issue ‘Researching the Curriculum in schools and colleges: Practice, Professionalism and Innovation’ (read more). How can the curriculum be...
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The Higher Project Qualification: It doesn’t matter what you’ve learned. At the end of the day, it’s the grade
This article is part of the BERA Blog special issue ‘Researching the Curriculum in schools and colleges: Practice, Professionalism and Innovation’ (read more). When asked by two year 11...
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Promoting effective curriculum research: Linking the theoretic to the practical in FE teacher education programmes
This article is part of the BERA Blog special issue ‘Researching the Curriculum in schools and colleges: Practice, Professionalism and Innovation’ (read more). Perhaps one of the few...
Continue readingPhDs by published works
With increasing pressure on academics and other professionals to gain doctorates to assure career progression, doing a PhD by published work (PhDPW) makes eminent sense. This is particularly true...
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Reply to Danielle Pée’s BERA blog post, ‘The Power of Relationships’, as applied to research ethics
This article is part of the BERA Blog special issue ‘Researching the Curriculum in schools and colleges: Practice, Professionalism and Innovation’ (read more). Danielle Pée’s BERA blog...
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Researching the curriculum in schools and colleges: Practice, professionalism and innovation
Introducing a special issue of the BERA Blog from the British Curriculum Forum On 24 February 2018 the British Curriculum Forum (BCF) held its third curriculum event for teachers, academics,...
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Researching the curriculum: The value of published research
This article is part of the BERA Blog special issue ‘Researching the Curriculum in schools and colleges: Practice, Professionalism and Innovation’ (read more). How do teachers use...
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The social categories of gender, race, dis-ability, intelligence, sexuality and class in relation to education
There have recently been calls to adopt approaches to the study of the social world that deny the need to address ontological and epistemological issues. Advocates for these approaches give the...
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The benefits of undergraduate research
Undergraduate students are not often valued as, or considered to be, researchers. Evidence suggests, however, that by providing undergraduates with research opportunities we upskill our students,...
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Peer support of teaching in college higher education, in the context of the Teaching Excellence Framework
The Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) is a government assessment of the quality of undergraduate teaching in universities and other higher education (HE) providers in England. The TEF rates...
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Assessing the knowledge generated by practice-based postgraduate research
Research is an integral part of many postgraduate programmes, and in many disciplines, such as health and education, research is frequently related to the professional role. In programmes such as...
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BERA’s postgraduate symposium: A lifebelt in the methodological mire
As a doctoral student, BERA’s Postgraduate Forum symposium on research methodology seemed the perfect opportunity to present the methodological aspects of my research to a critical audience...
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