From the outside, one might assume England’s education system is tolerant of diversity, welcoming and pluralistic. The truth is, to some extent it is. There are several thousand teachers from...
In Australia, as in many parts of the world, early childhood education has become the subject of much scrutiny, generating a great deal of attention in research, policy and practice. With...
A consistent finding of research on education’s civic effects is that it fosters liberalism, respect, tolerance, and social responsibility. The growth of educational participation, according to...
This presentation seeks to make both theoretical and empirical contributions. With regard to the former, I consider issues of citizenship, belonging and values in relation to contemporary...
Early career researchers have, until relatively recently, been invisible in the eyes of policy makers, with very little attention, historically, paid to their induction and professional...
BERA was established 43 years ago, in 1974, at the height of the postwar expansion of education, and at the onset of a long period of controversy and reform of education that has continued ever...
In his seminal 1992 publication Faces at the bottom of the Well, the eminent scholar and founder of Critical Race Theory (CRT) Derrick Bell proffers what some might consider a harrowing and...
The past two decades have witnessed a remarkable rise of the language of learning in education and in our lives more generally. Not only is it claimed that we live in an age of learning; we are...
Promises of enhanced ‘productivity’ via the automation of teaching have been with us since the early days of digital education, sometimes embraced by teachers and institutions, and sometimes...
Children and young people are growing up in contexts which are politically complex, often exacerbated by conflict or societal divisions. Yet, whilst it is generally accepted that schools have a...
Education in contemporary India is encumbered by the convergence between forces of economic globalisation and conservative ideology. Capitalising on the post-enlightenment social-subjective split,...
This BERA presidential address considers how knowledge, education and research interact in practice, as the institutional structures that support them change. Many of the efforts at large-scale...