The paradox of the martial arts

‘The martial arts are all about violence, aren’t they?’ a concerned parent once asked. Such questions may immediately come to mind when discussing martial arts in a school setting. For those...

Artificial intelligence in educational research and practice

While artificial intelligence (AI), as an academic discipline, has been with us since the 1950s, knowledge of AI’s impact on formal education and all its stakeholders is in its infancy. To plug...

Family transitions, ‘special’ education and home education

In the decade before the first Covid-19 lockdown, the numbers of children deregistered from school to begin home education increased annually (ADCS, 2021). Concomitantly – as noted by Ofsted...

Young women have more career choices but why more anxiety?

Despite efforts to improve careers education, it is still seen to be largely ineffective. In addition, young people’s career aspirations have changed little in recent decades. OECD data from...

Autumn 2023

Research Intelligence issue 156: Intersectionality: Teaching & learning in UK schools

Education, mental wellbeing and the cost-of-living crisis: Bridging research and practice

The rising cost of living is causing high levels of stress and concern for millions of households. For educators, poverty is tangible in the growing numbers of hungry, cold and tired pupils...

BERA announces 2023 BERA Educational Research Book of the Year Shortlist

The BERA Educational Research Book of the Year award celebrates the publication of educational research and is awarded to a scholarly book on education deemed to be high quality, engaging and...

What makes students curious about science?

‘It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of enquiry’, Einstein is reported to have said. Given...

The grass ceiling: Contextualising English rural/urban educational outcomes

The traditional narrative of urban–rural educational disadvantage is that urban pupils do less well in the English exam system. Decontextualised data (as exemplified in table 1 across different...

Funding Announced: BERA Small Grants Fund 2023/2024: Education in a digital age: Perspectives from policy and practice

Through our Small Grants Fund, BERA awards funding annually to research on a different, pressing theme each year, with the intention that each project will: make important contributions to the...

Learning for all: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports

This series of reports presents the findings and recommendations of six research projects funded by BERA’s 2022/23 Small Grants Fund (SGF) on the theme ‘learning for all’. The projects...

Images from the edges

Learning for all: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports

Girls’ experiences of being at risk of permanent exclusion