Should we really call this home schooling? Reflections from the research field

Covid-19, education and educational research

Within this current context, the term ‘home schooling’ is often deployed in a blanket way to describe what is likely to be a plethora of activities and methods of teaching and learning largely...

Quarantined at home? Craft productive learningscapes and workspaces through the use of recorded music

The Covid-19 pandemic means that countless students and educational staff are expected to continue their work from home. The worldwide quarantine has been a game-changer, blurring the boundaries...

Education, children’s futures and Covid-19

Covid-19, education and educational research

Last year I conducted a research project with 12 early-career primary teachers. While exploring their sense of purpose, I found that many teachers were driven by a commitment to preparing their...

Practical science and pandemics

Covid-19, education and educational research

As the whole planet finds itself engulfed in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, it has become increasingly clear that the public needs to be well equipped with the skills to deal with scientific...

Why do school exclusion rates continue to rise in England?

Children and young people excluded from school for poor behaviour have lower than average educational outcomes. They are more likely to experience ‘deep exclusion’ (Levitas et al., 2007), with...

A research approach to curriculum development: A British Curriculum Forum event report

A collection of groundbreaking new work on collaborative curriculum, research and development.

A Curriculum for Wellbeing: A British Curriculum Forum conference

Update (Friday 13 March): unfortunately the conference previewed in this blog, which was to be held on Saturday 14 March, has been postponed. To be kept updated on its rearrangement please email...

Researching education and mental health: From ‘Where are we now?’ to ‘What next?’

The mental health and wellbeing of both learners and teaching staff are among the most pressing issues facing education in the coming decade. This special issue of the BERA Blog presents a...

Continuities in mental wellbeing from adolescence into early adulthood

We are concerned here with the extent of mental wellbeing and, in particular, distress and other difficulties with wellbeing, and whether such difficulties continue as young people move from...

Editorial: Researching education and mental health: From ‘Where are we now?’ to ‘What next?’

The mental health and wellbeing of learners and teaching staff rank among some of the most pressing issues facing education as we enter a new decade. Growing rates of emotional distress among...

The 2020 Revision Census: The ambition and ethics of large-scale independent research

What do our children spend their time doing when they put in all those hours studying for big exams? Cognitive psychology tells us that the techniques they choose can have a substantial impact on...

Using art to represent science: A visualisation of student motivation data

Data comes in many forms, some more accessible than others. At the recent BERA conference, I tried to address this with a poster presenting quantitative data in an unexpected way. The data came...