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Co-teaching and 21st century pedagogy

Co-teaching provides a collaborative pedagogy in initial teacher education, whereby co-teachers share expertise to: improve the learning environment for students, and develop each other’s...

England’s computing curriculum: A clash of values, beliefs and purpose

How does industry’s participation in the creation of education policy impact upon what happens in the classroom? My recent ethnographic case study (Larke, 2019), of how England’s national...

Read the editorial from issue #140: ‘How Inclusive of Children are our Educational Research Methods?’

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) was written in 1989 and is legally binding in 195 countries. Articles 12 and 13 specify that children and young people (C&YP) have the right to...

½¿É«µ¼º½ ECR Network Symposium Series 2019: Analytical Approaches in Educational Research (North)

½¿É«µ¼º½ ECR Network Symposium Series 2019: Analytical Approaches in Educational Research

  This event is now fully booked. Please email events@bera.ac.uk if you would like to receive notice of changes in availability or similar events.   Discussants: Dr Louise Kay, Dr Tom...

‘Prevent Duty’, Islam and Extremism Seminar – Mapping the Field and Future Projects

  This event is now fully booked. Please email events@bera.ac.uk if you would like to be added to a reserve list or be informed about similar events. Current initiatives in...

Shifting power in children’s literature: Story Makers Press

Literary criticism of children’s literature focusses on the power relations between the adult writer and the child reader. At one end of the spectrum, this relationship is described as...

Creativity, criticality and reflexivity: A gentle approach to action research

The ½¿É«µ¼º½ and RSA Report (2014) confirmed the educational value of making schools research-rich environments, and work continues to be done on convincing schools that this really is the case, and...

Earth surface modeling for education: How effective is it?

Mixed or inconclusive results regarding the effect of computer simulations in enhancing students’ learning have been reported in the literature (see for example Edsall & Wentz, 2007)....

Curriculum is – or should be – at the heart of educational practice

New forms of national curriculum emerging worldwide have shifted the focus from input regulation – detailed specification of content to be taught – to output regulation – evaluation of the...

Developing a framework for initial teacher education and beyond: Phases and strands

England’s Department for Education recently launched the Early Career Framework (ECF) for the first two years of a teacher’s career (DfE 2019). This initiative, welcome though it is,...

Summer 2019

How inclusive of children are our educational research methods? Research Intelligence issue 139: Marking 30 years of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child This special issue of Research...

School Readiness: Why and for whom?

Research Commission: Competing Discourses of Early Childhood Education and Care

This event is now fully booked. Please email events@bera.ac.uk if you would like to be added to a reserve list or be informed about similar events ½¿É«µ¼º½ Research Commission event The early...