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Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence treats the subject of history (or People, Past Events and Societies, as it is known) as a ‘social subject’ alongside geography and modern studies. It...
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Joe Smith
I subscribe to The London Review of Books (LRB). The main article on May 7th 2015 was about free schools and academies. It provoked a vigorous debate (on 21/5. 4/6 and 18/6) with serious...
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Sara Delamont
Highlights from the first 1,000 BERA Blog posts
The concept of ‘teacher agency’ has elicited a fair amount of attention recently, including a special edition of Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice. And yet, it remains an elusive...
In the post 2015 general election period there are a range of issues that we as researchers need to think about when we are writing about education policy. Let me illuminate these with one...
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Helen Gunter
For the past decade, I have been observing, researching and reporting on a group of Scottish teachers and lecturers, who through their trade union activities, have had a significant impact on...
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Alex Alexandrou
Call it what you like - practitioner enquiry, classroom-based research, reflective analysis, clinical practice, evidence-informed leadership - the need for teachers and school leaders to look...
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Ken Jones
Final report of the BERA–UCET Working Group on Education Research
Research and the Teaching Profession: Building the Capacity for a Self-Improving Education System concludes that teachers across the UK should be supported to become research literate. This...