Pedagogical space(s): The benefits of collaboration with forest school providers for the early years classroom teachers and pupils

Competing discourses in early childhood education and care

In 2022, the Foundation Phase in Wales will be replaced by the new Curriculum for Wales (CfW), a national framework for children aged between three and 16. One of its aims is to provide...

Children’s design and co-creation of classroom space as a Spatially Democratic Pedagogy

Competing discourses in early childhood education and care

Imagine a classroom of four-to-five-year-old children designing and co-creating their classroom spaces. They are not passive recipients of the spaces created for them, but architects, product...

Competing discourses in early childhood education and care

Early childhood education and care (ECEC) has developed to meet different aims to encourage children’s holistic development; embed attitudes consistent with lifelong learning; facilitate...

Editorial: Competing discourses in early childhood education and care

Competing discourses in early childhood education and care

Early childhood education and care (ECEC) has developed to meet different aims to encourage children’s holistic development; embed attitudes consistent with lifelong learning; facilitate...

BERA Research Commission 2019–2020: Competing discourses in early childhood education and care

Tensions, impacts and democratic alternatives across the UK’s four nations

BERA Research Commission 2019/2020: Manifesto for Education for Environmental Sustainability (EfES)

The final manifesto from the BERA-funded research commission on environmental sustainability calls for sustainability to become a key feature of the curriculum, inspections and other...

HE Education Research Census 2022

The UK-wide census of all HE-based education researchers has just been launched. It is a nationwide census examining the characteristics, experiences and attitudes of education researchers...

Summer 2022

Pandemic, protests, recovery, opportunities: Repositioning of educational research, teaching & learning  Research Intelligence issue 151 This second decade of the 21st century continues to...

Early Career Researcher Network – Regional Reps vacancy

Call for Regional Representatives - Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales & South West England Regional Representatives The BERA Early Career Researcher (ECR) Network aims to offer support to those...

Comparing PE curricula across the UK home nations: Creating conditions for cross-border conversations

Understanding UK PE curricula In the UK and internationally, the subject of physical education (PE) has remained relatively unchanged and continues to be associated with the development of sport...

School self-evaluation for school improvement: Principles of effective practice

In developing the National Strategy of Educational Research and Enquiry (NSERE), the Welsh Government conducted several evidence reviews to understand how to foster educational research capacity...

Why Wales has a head start in the future of post-16 education in the UK and internationally

Wales is currently in the middle of a curriculum and qualifications reform. Since 2015, ‘pioneer’ schools across the principality have been contributing to the development of a new national...