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Amber is a Senior Lecturer in Childhood and Youth Studies at the Open University in the School of Education, Childhood, Youth and Sport. Her research contributes to understanding learner transitions, pedagogies, and community building within and across modes of alternative education outside of formal schooling including: home education, gypsy and traveller education. Her funded research and knowledge exchange includes commissioned research, and participatory and arts-based methods for co-production with families receiving alternative provision. Amber is a research development mentor, and doctoral supervisor to projects within the UK and Italy. Recently, she co-designed and now chairs a large undergraduate module on Contemporary Research with Children and Young People, at the Open University.
This case study considers the ethical issues that can arise when conducting participatory research with young people. It highlights the nuanced nature of participation preferences and the ethical...
Join the Alternative Education SIG annual meeting to network with colleagues, learn about the activities of the SIG over the last year and plans for 2023 This meeting will be hosted online,...
In this interactive seminar, the SIG welcomes Dr Andy Malcolm, Senior Lecturer in the Childhood and Youth Studies (University of Bedfordshire), to share the findings from his recent work on...
Online registration has now closed for this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk to register. The landscape of Alternative Provision (AP) has increasingly diversified and evolved across the four...
In this episode of the BERA Podcast Joanna Merrett discusses the impact the Covid-19 pandemic has had on elective home education families and her recent research submitted to the UK EHE select...
Online registration has now closed, to register please email events@bera.ac.uk #BERA_AlternativeEducation Online event - pre-registration essential Across the global context of disrupted...
Within this current context, the term ‘home schooling’ is often deployed in a blanket way to describe what is likely to be a plethora of activities and methods of teaching and learning largely...
Continue reading blog postThe Alternative Education SIG takes the broadest approach to ‘alternative’ that we can. We are interested in all forms of out of school educational provision and with ‘alternative’...