BERA Bites, issue 12: Education and the environment
Today, in 2025, as an Earthly community, we face the ongoing triple planetary crises of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste. Across the UK, and in many other...
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Ready for a new turn in teacher education?
This year I retired from my role in teacher education and research, seven years after becoming a professor, and 30 years after mentoring my first student teacher. In the English context I was not...
Practices and learning needs of Romanian school-based teacher educators
Initial teacher education (ITE) varies across countries. In many educational systems, including Romania, universities are responsible for preparing future teachers, collaborating with schools for...
Raising Critical Confidence as a root to knowledge of self
hooks (1994, p. 34) advises us to ‘renew our minds if we are to transform educational institutions and society so the way we live, teach, and work can reflect our joy in cultural diversity, our...
What lessons do students infer from Holocaust education?
‘The premier demand upon all education is that Auschwitz not happen again. Its priority before any other requirement is such that I believe I need not and should not justify it.’ —Adorno,...
Neoliberal metrics and a curriculum for competence
Neoliberalism – the free market ideology of individual liberty and choice, combined with limited government interference in a competitive marketplace – has been a growing international trend...
A digital learning model integrating Bronfenbrenner’s Human Ecology Model with the Chinese He and Xie Principles that support diverse learners
The rise of online learning has led to new digitally connected teaching models. With the growth of learning platforms and AI tools like ChatGPT, the higher education sector faces the challenge of...
School health and wellbeing, and national education system reform in Wales
The Curriculum for Wales prioritises young people’s health and wellbeing, with a strategic aim for all children in Wales to be healthy and confident individuals. Following national roll-out,...
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