Please note below the following BERA publications which are no longer available in print.  You can download some of these publications.

BERA Occasional Publications

Fuzzy Generalisation: transforming research findings into fuzzy predictions which can inform teachers’, policy makers’ and researchers’ discourse and action BERA Symposium at AERA 2001 at Seattle on 12 April 2001. Michael Bassey, Sue Hallam, Andrew Pollard, Anne West and Philip Noden, Bob Stake (2001) ISBN 0 946671 11 7

Issues and principles in educational research for teachers Anne Campbell, Elaine S.Freedman, Carolyn Boulter and Margaret Kirkwood (BERA working group 2002-2003) (2003) ISBN 0 946671 17 6

Quality Conditions for Quality Research: guidance for good practice in the employment of contract researchers in Education Elaine S Freedman, Helen Patrick, Bridget Somekh, Donald McIntyre, and Felicity Wikeley (2000) ISBN 0946671

Teacher Activism: Mobilising the Profession Judyth Sachs: The University of Sydney (2003)

The Impact of RAE 3B Rating on Educational Research in Teacher Education Departments Conducted on behalf of the British Educational Research Association. Final report, November 2003. Report by Chris Kynch (c.kynch@ucsm.ac.uk) and Marion Dadds (m.dadds@ucsm.ac.uk), St. Martin’s College, Lancaster.

New BERA Dialogues

Published by Paul Chapman (Sage) in association with BERA.

General Editor: Donald McIntyre.

Articulating with Difficulty: research voices in inclusive education Peter Clough and Len Barton (eds) (1998) ISBN 1 85396 410 7

Challenges in Educational Research Jean Rudduck and Donald McIntyre (eds) (1998) ISBN 1 85396 442 5

Enhancing Quality in Assessment Wynne Harlen (1994) ISBN 1 85396 260 0

Implementing the Mathematics National Curriculum: policy, politics and practice David C Johnson and Alison Millett (eds) (1996) ISBN 1 85396 327 5

Teacher Education Research in a New Context: the Oxford internship scheme Donald McIntyre (ed) (1997) ISBN 1 85396 364 X

BERA Dialogues Series

Now discontinued. Available from bookshops. Published by Multilingual Matters in association with BERA.

BERA Dialogues series General Editors Pam Lomax and Donald McIntyre:

An Education that Empowers: lectures in memory of Lawrence Stenhouse Jean Rudduck (ed) (1995) ISBN 1 85359 2889

Educational Research in Europe James Calderhead (ed) (1994) ISBN 1 85359 255 2

Perceptions of Teaching and Learning Martin Hughes (ed) 1994 ISBN 1 85359 231 5

Policy Issues in National Assesment Patricia Broadfoot et al (ed) 1992 ISBN 1 85359 170 X

Progression in Learning Martin Hughes (ed) (1995) ISBN 1 85359 3095

BERA Reviews

In 1999 BERA began a series of national events on research findings in an attempt to create a map of current British educational research activity. Each event would lead to a review of the relevant literature. Subsequently the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) offered funding to support the idea of ‘user reviews’ – which would be a way of communicating academic findings to potential users of the research. A third initiative was putting on to the BERA website a listing of currently available research reviews, originally developed by the Economic & Social Research Council’s Teaching & Learning Research Programme (ESRC TLRP).

BERA Council has now adopted the idea that two main types of review of educational research be recognised and promoted, viz: academic reviews and professional user reviews.

Academic Reviews

The aim of an academic review is to summarise recent and historical developments in an area which would be useful to students and academics without a specialist knowledge of the field. Academic reviews arising from BERA national events are being posted here on our web site. Some of these reviews lead to scholarly summary reviews published in academic journals.

Education for Democratic Citizenship: a review of research, policy and practice 1995-2005 Audrey Osler and Hugh Starkey

Early Years Research: Pedagogy, Curriculum and Adult Roles, Training and Professionalism BERA Early Years SIG (2003) (ISBN 0 946671 16 8)

Pastoral Care & Personal-social Education Editor: Ron Best (2002) (ISBN 0 946671 14 1)

Teaching and Learning in Primary Numeracy: A review of British research for BERA in conjunction with the British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics Editors: Mike Askew and Margeret Brown (2001) ( ISBN 0 946671 12 5)

Mapping Music Education Research in the UK BERA Music Education Review Group (2001) (ISBN 0 946671 13 3)

Professional User Reviews

The aim of a professional user review (PUR) is to critically inform the thinking of practitioners and/or policy makers about current, reliable research in a particular educational domain and to stimulate discussion and use of the research in educational practice. A professional user review may arise from an academic review but differs from the academic review in that:

• it is devised and written by researchers and practitioners working together;
• it has an additional criterion – that of worth whileness to the practitioners to establish inclusion/exclusion;
• it should be brief and written in an accessible style.

Each in this series of seven booklets is a short, readable synthesis of trustworthy research findings that will inform education practitioners such as teachers and policy-makers.

Authors have been chosen from experts who are familiar with the literature and who can extract relevant and reliable evidence-based research findings and present these in an accessible and constructive way.

Each Professional User Review has had a group of teachers acting in a consultative role – this ensures that the outcome represents a genuine collaboration between researchers and practitioners that will meet the needs of the target audience.

Within each area, practitioners using this series will be able to assess accepted educational practices, take a view on innovative ideas and consider the implications of findings for their own field of work.

PDF versions of the Professional User Reviews can be downloaded free of charge by following the links below.

How do we teach children to become numerate? Mike Askew and Margaret Brown (2003) (ISBN 0 946671 23 0)

How do we learn to become good citizens? Liam Gearon (2003) (ISBN 0 946671 20 6)

How is music learning celebrated and developed? Graham F Welch and Pauline Adams (2003) (ISBN 0 946671 22 2)

What do we know about teaching young children? Tricia David (2003) (ISBN 0 946671 21 4)

Does ICT improve learning and teaching in schools? Steve Higgins (2003) (ISBN 0 946671 19 2)

Connecting research and practice: Education for sustainable development Mark Rickinson and colleagues (2003) (ISBN 0 946671 18 4)

Connecting policy and practice: Research in geography education Eleanor Rawling (2003) (ISBN 0 946671 24 9)