How can action research in teacher training help you become a reflective practitioner?

As a teacher education lecturer in post compulsory education (PCE), I regularly look back on my own Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) experience as a student and think about how much it...

Storying identities, experiences and agency of graduate teaching assistants

‘Have you thought about including recordings of these stories as part of your thesis? It’s just that reading them out loud was really powerful for those of us listening.’ I stopped. To be...

Online education: What will we keep as lockdown ends?

Teachers across the world have never had to work so hard or so creatively. As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, professional development that would otherwise have taken years has been crammed...

2020 typology of free web-based learning technologies

It is critical that educators have a comprehensive understanding of technologies if they are to effectively integrate technology into their teaching (Koehler, Mishra, Kereluik, Shin, & Graham,...

The primary role of research leads: Developing a research culture within schools

In 2014, BERA published Research and the teaching profession: Building the capacity for a self-improving education system. The report made the case for a research-literate profession,...

Covid-19 and schooling for uncertainty

Covid-19 reveals an urgent need to focus on an area of worldwide educational significance: the importance for schools of engaging with uncertainty as a key facet of education. In recent decades, a...

Virtual teaching for children with dyslexia: The realities and disturbing absence of research

Covid-19, education and educational research

I am writing this post from both a parental and scientific perspective. Firstly, from a parental stance, SARS-CoV-2 and subsequent coronavirus 19 has undoubtedly driven us into situations that...

The future of religious education in England

The Commission on Religious Education (CoRE) proposes a statutory change of the name for the subject religious education (RE), into ‘Religion and Worldviews’ in all publicly funded schools...

Time to consider a ‘career in education’, rather than a ‘teacher career’?

Although seminal teacher career models (Day, Sammons, Stobart, Kington, & Gu, 2007; Fessler & Christensen, 1992; Huberman, 1993; Sikes, Measor, & Woods, 1985) have established predetermined...

Is there a tension between teaching and assessing critical-thinking skills?

The widely varying quality of responses to the global Coronavirus pandemic presents yet another example of the importance of critical-thinking skills among leaders and the public dealing with...

Tensions in current curriculum reform and the development of teachers’ professional autonomy

Current curriculum reform in Wales offers the chance for teachers to have greater freedom in developing pedagogical approaches that meet the needs of their pupils. The Successful Futures report...

Online teacher education in times of Covid-19

Covid-19, education and educational research

Almost all dimensions of human experience have been affected by the Covid-19 outbreak, and governments around the world have adopted stringent measures to stop the spread of the virus. One such...