Teacher Education and Development

Teacher–student dialogue: Why it matters for student outcomes

For at least two millennia, the dialogue that occurs during teaching has been spotlighted as critical for student outcomes, with many scholars proposing needs for: open questions; elaboration of...

Christine Howe

Blog post9 May 2018

Building Research in Primary Schools (BRiPS)

With the growing importance of securing a strong evidence base for teaching, there is considerable scope for exploring different ways in which teachers can be supported to engage in research....

Ruth Dann

Blog post4 May 2018

Promoting effective curriculum research: Linking the theoretic to the practical in FE teacher education programmes

This article is part of the BERA Blog special issue ‘Researching the Curriculum in schools and colleges: Practice, Professionalism and Innovation’ (read more). Perhaps one of the few...

Gordon Ade-Ojo
Heather Booth Martin

Blog post26 Apr 2018

The making of the RE-searchers approach: Close-to-practice theorisation and conceptualisation

This article is part of the BERA Blog special issue ‘Researching the Curriculum in schools and colleges: Practice, Professionalism and Innovation’ (read more). This is the tale of two...

Giles Freathy

Blog post23 Apr 2018

Reply to Danielle Pée’s BERA blog post, ‘The Power of Relationships’, as applied to research ethics

This article is part of the BERA Blog special issue ‘Researching the Curriculum in schools and colleges: Practice, Professionalism and Innovation’ (read more). Danielle Pée’s BERA blog...

Alison Fox

Blog post20 Apr 2018

The untapped potential of university–school partnerships

This article is part of the BERA Blog special issue ‘Researching the Curriculum in schools and colleges: Practice, Professionalism and Innovation’ (read more). ‘As a...

Sue Cronin

Blog post18 Apr 2018

Researching the curriculum in schools and colleges: Practice, professionalism and innovation

Introducing a special issue of the BERA Blog from the British Curriculum Forum On 24 February 2018 the British Curriculum Forum (BCF) held its third curriculum event for teachers, academics,...

Gerry Czerniawski

Blog post16 Apr 2018

Researching the curriculum: The value of published research

This article is part of the BERA Blog special issue ‘Researching the Curriculum in schools and colleges: Practice, Professionalism and Innovation’ (read more). How do teachers use...

Tim Cain

Blog post16 Apr 2018

Volume versus quality: Teacher education providers being pulled in different directions

When Michael Gove and Nick Gibb first entered their offices on the seventh floor in Sanctuary Buildings in 2010, they were intent on instigating a revolutionary change in the way that student...

James Noble-Rogers

Blog post23 Mar 2018

House of Commons symposium on teacher education policy

On 28 February 2018, a special education symposium was hosted by Mike Kane MP, shadow minister for schools, for Manchester Metropolitan University at the House of Commons. The symposium aimed to...

Moira Hulme

Blog post14 Mar 2018

Peer support of teaching in college higher education, in the context of the Teaching Excellence Framework

The Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) is a government assessment of the quality of undergraduate teaching in universities and other higher education (HE) providers in England. The TEF rates...

Dan Amin

Blog post9 Mar 2018

‘The Talk’ – a play to get adults talking about relationship and sex education

A child puts a question in an anonymous box. What happens next? In 2017, Justine Greening, former secretary of state for education, announced that relationships and sex education (RSE) would be...

Neela Doležalová

Blog post2 Mar 2018