The teacher education content framework we really need

The BERA Blog post ‘Dropping off a cliff’ makes a strong case that the current trainee teacher recruitment crisis in England has been exacerbated by several Department for Education (DfE)...

Teaching ‘policy analysis’ through a case-based approach in higher education: Context of Pakistan

Teaching a course on ‘policy analysis’ remains challenging for several reasons: drawing from multiple theoretical threads (Heck, 2004); relying mainly on ‘desk reviews’ of policies as...

Positive psychology and language learning: A systematic scoping review

Our blog post reports on a systematic scoping review that addresses the influence of positive psychology on second and foreign language acquisition and learning. Emotions significantly impact...

How to optimise the use of Hattie and Timperley’s feedback levels for student learning

Hattie and Timperley (2007) distinguish four levels of feedback messages that address different aspects of students’ learning: task, process, self-regulation and self. This blog post outlines...

Reviewing the term EAL from an antiracist multilingual perspective

This blog post is based on a doctoral research study that explored perceptions and experiences of multiculturalism of teachers, students and parents in four mainstream primary schools in the...

How can online instructors enhance student performance by effectively participating in asynchronous online discussions?

Online learning has become increasingly important in education, especially during and after the Covid-19 pandemic. A key activity in online learning is asynchronous online discussion (for instance...

Tomorrow never knows: AIE a discourse of hype

Artificial intelligence in educational research and practice

Much hype around artificial intelligence in education (AIE) is crystallised in the language. This was demonstrated emphatically in the ‘discombobulated’ tones of a working paper from Hamilton,...

Editorial: What are we educating for? Introducing the BERA Blog Special Issue

This BERA Blog special issue started out as a seminar series in which we brought together policymakers, educational practitioners and researchers to discuss what we are educating for across the...

A vital role for further education: Educating extra-ordinary young people

This blog post focuses on the overlooked and precarious middle in the English education system: further education and the young people who participate in it. In Helena Kennedy’s words, further...