Picture this: How can comics teach about forced marriage?

Ours is an increasingly image-based culture, and visual literacy has become a necessary skill for understanding the modern world. It is integral that young people develop the abilities necessary...

Coherent lives: Making sense of adoptees’ experiences in education through narrative identity

‘Who am I? Where do I fit in? What do I want to be?’ These are common questions we associate with adolescent development. For young people who have left care through adoption, these questions...

How do female Muslim teachers manage the challenges of homogenisation and stereotyping in an educational context?

Introduction This blog post is based on my doctoral research. I look at identity and belonging in education; how female Muslim teachers (FMTs) respond to stereotypes in the classroom; and the...

Teaching Peru’s recent history of conflict in secondary schools: Exploring perspectives ‘at the margins’ and ‘from below’

For two decades between 1980 and 2000, Peru experienced a significant internal conflict, primarily involving the government and the ‘Shining Path’ terrorist group. This tragic period resulted...

A global goal but local challenges: Perspectives on education in the Global South

This BERA Blog special issue highlights educational topics in the Global South that require urgent attention if we want to reach the goal of quality education for all. The contributions illustrate...

Linguistic injustice in secondary school classrooms: The case of Tanzania

In Global South countries, the issue of students’ freedoms to learn in a language they know well has been a subject of discussion for many decades. In Tanzania, there is an ongoing debate...

Newly arrived refugee pupils: Educators’ knowledge, attitudes and practices

According to UNHCR refugee statistics, in mid-2023 the number of forcibly displaced people worldwide topped 110 million for the first time in recorded history. Children who are refugees or asylum...

New GCSEs in Wales for a more equal society

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The challenges young people will need to overcome in the future transcend their employability qualities. They need to understand what knowledge and skills are valuable in the world, how these are...

‘So I suppose they think I’m a failure’: How schools (unwittingly) marginalise white working-class families

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This blog post relates to a qualitative research project focused on the engagement and achievement of white working-class students carried out in three comprehensive secondary schools in an inner...

Informal education, school bullying and ‘public executions’: Young people’s experiences of the hierarchical nature of relationships in school

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The reference to ‘public executions’ in the title of this blog post is a quote from a research participant who was describing his experience of what happens when someone is caught bullying in...

BERA Bites, issue 9: What are we educating for?

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This BERA Bites collection started out as a seminar series in which policymakers, educational practitioners and researchers came together to discuss what we are educating for across the English...

Languages provision in UK further education

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‘Previously nobody would have been interested in Arabic. But now we have hundreds and hundreds of Syrian refugees and people working with them. So that sort of guides me when thinking of...