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Should we really call this home schooling? Reflections from the research field

Covid-19, education and educational research

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...

Education, children’s futures and Covid-19

Covid-19, education and educational research

Last year I conducted a research project with 12 early-career primary teachers. While exploring their sense of purpose, I found that many teachers were driven by a commitment to preparing their...

BERA joins call to cancel the introduction of Reception Baseline Assessment (RBA) in the Autumn term

BERA President Dominic Wyse is one of the co-signatories to an open letter that calls upon the Government to abandon its plan to introduce the reception baseline assessment into primary schools in...

Childhood on the move

This event has now been postponed. To be kept updated on when this will be reschedule for, please email events@bera.ac.uk. Please join us for the BERA Children and Childhood special interest...

Education practitioners’ and students’ perspectives on youth mental health first aid provision within education settings in England

The Youth Mental Health First Aid in Schools programme (Youth MHFA) is a policy initiative intended to enable education practitioners to spot the signs of mental health issues in children and...

Whole-school approaches to building resilience and promoting mental health: Embracing complexity

In the context of increasing demand for specialist mental health (MH) services, emphasis has been placed on school-based early intervention to prevent or de-escalate later MH issues. The case for...

Self-harm in primary-aged school children

Finding ways to support and identify children and young people (CYP) who self-harm is an important social issue. Incidences of self-harm in CYP in the UK have risen in the last 20 years, with the...

Championing mental health in schools with Book of Beasties: The mental wellness card game

Supporting children’s mental health and wellbeing in schools Last year’s State of the nation 2019 report (DfE, 2019a) on children and young people’s wellbeing indicated that the majority...

Editorial: Researching education and mental health: From ‘Where are we now?’ to ‘What next?’

The mental health and wellbeing of learners and teaching staff rank among some of the most pressing issues facing education as we enter a new decade. Growing rates of emotional distress among...

Continuities in mental wellbeing from adolescence into early adulthood

We are concerned here with the extent of mental wellbeing and, in particular, distress and other difficulties with wellbeing, and whether such difficulties continue as young people move from...

Researching education and mental health: From ‘Where are we now?’ to ‘What next?’

The mental health and wellbeing of both learners and teaching staff are among the most pressing issues facing education in the coming decade. This special issue of the BERA Blog presents a...

Interdisciplinary, interactive climate change education: A STEAM approach

‘Climate emergency’ has been defined as the word of 2019 by the Oxford English Dictionary (BBC Newsround, 2019). Around the world adults and school children are realising that climate change...