Learning to read is perhaps the most important thing we learn to do. There is significant evidence that being a reader impacts on future social, emotional, economic and academic success. A failure...
Over the last decade, the humanities and social sciences have become increasingly interested in the nonhuman (animals, plants, non-living objects) as having agentic and performative capacities. By...
Dr Barbara Skinner, Senior Lecturer, teacher educator and researcher in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) in the School of Education at Ulster University has been appointed...
Recently Phonics has been accepted as the prime approach for the teaching and learning of reading and as a key way to measure success in reading pedagogy. This webinar problematise that view by...
#BERA_phonics Online registration for this event has now closed, please email events@bera.ac.uk to register. Recently Phonics has been accepted as the prime approach for the teaching and...
Many articles that have been written in relation to the Black Lives Matter agenda, state that education is key to improving Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) children’s life chances...
Over the last decade, the landscape of research on materiality in educational studies has shifted from an emphasis on semiotic modes to one that considers material relationality and affective...
Ronan Kelly is a Doctoral Researcher at Ulster University. His PhD explores language learning, identity and social cohesion for pupils with English as an Additional Language (EAL) in secondary...
This episode of the BERA Podcast explores how how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted primary and post-primary pupils with English as an Additional Language (EAL) and their families.
Dr Maria Stewart is a Special Educational Needs (SEN) Link Officer in the Education Authority Northern Ireland and an associate lecturer at St Mary’s University College Belfast. Her PhD...
Almost all dimensions of human experience have been affected by the Covid-19 outbreak, and governments around the world have adopted stringent measures to stop the spread of the virus. One such...