Call for papers: What place for activism in, for and as education?
A proposed special issue of the British Educational Research Journal
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Rebecca Sherratt
Rebecca Sherratt is the PGCE Secondary English course leader at Staffordshire University and a first year Doctorate of Education researcher at the same higher education institution. Her research...
Marcia White
I am the newly appointed Secondary Outreach Lead for Bromley Trust Academy. I have experience of working with children in mainstream and specialist schools. Prior to my new post I spend nine years...
The action research gardener: How doing action research restores my emotional energy
A central question to my action research (AR) asks how a teacher-educator can improve her practice to support trainee-teacher learning during teaching practice (TP). My research was prompted by...
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Practitioner enquiry: Embedding research in practice
A common trait of expert teachers is a natural scepticism which prompts constant questioning of what they hear and do (Cochran-Smith & Lytle, 2009). For many, this leads to research as a means to...
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Editorial: Action research: Research into action
Lisa Pettifer, head of professional development in a large secondary school in England, proclaimed in her blog post Living with research in 2015 that, from a practitioner perspective, ‘…the...
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Action research: Research into action
A number of ½¿É«µ¼º½ events between 2020 and 2022 enabled researchers to come together from a range of different education settings (primary, secondary, tertiary and higher education). These events...
Values for practice: Living educational theory research
The purpose of this blog post is to highlight the importance of researchers bringing their own personal values to educational research and how living values – which demonstrate respect for...
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Doing action research ethically
Depending on which literature we use, ‘action research’ may be defined in slightly different ways. Some researchers emphasise the iterative cycles of exploring an issue before developing,...
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Looking to action research to bridge educational gaps caused by the Covid-19 pandemic: A Saudi perspective
In March 2022, schools reopened in Saudi Arabia. As an educator in higher education, the most noticeable change with my students was their preference for distance learning. However, my sister, who...
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Meeting curriculum requirements while recognising the need for students to relate to texts
In 2010, a number of sweeping educational reforms were announced – particularly in English – where the likes of Byron, Keats and Dickens would firmly be re-rooted and restored to their...
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Include, inspire, improve: The power of learner-led research
Learners are paramount as agents of change in education. They are the core reason educational experiences exist. Without empowerment and ownership of change, learners will not and cannot be...
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