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How to optimise the use of Hattie and Timperley’s feedback levels for student learning

Hattie and Timperley (2007) distinguish four levels of feedback messages that address different aspects of students’ learning: task, process, self-regulation and self. This blog post outlines...

Editorial: What are we educating for? Introducing the BERA Blog Special Issue

This BERA Blog special issue started out as a seminar series in which we brought together policymakers, educational practitioners and researchers to discuss what we are educating for across the...

What are we educating for?

Although it has always been significant, the question of what we are educating for is now particularly important. There is growing consensus that the educational challenges we face require...

The politics of reforming secondary education

The biggest mistake of the 1997–2010 Labour governments was the failure in 2004/5 to implement Mike Tomlinson’s report on the future of the secondary education curriculum and assessment. In...

Women curriculum theorists

Feminism is a concept and a practice. As a concept feminism is polysemic, semantically contested, networked, interactive, powerful and dynamic. An important binary that has had real effects in the...

Nature connectedness through the arts

BCF Curriculum Investigation Grant Research Reports

Co-creating a curriculum to support pupil wellbeing in primary schools

Towards curriculum design coherence in primary geography education for sustainability

BCF Curriculum Investigation Grant Research Reports

This report shares the work of four primary teachers from the West Midlands of England involved in a curriculum investigation project funded by the British Curriculum Forum. The project aimed to...

Guest editing opportunity for Research Intelligence, issue 159

The future of academic publishing

BERA Conference 2023 Awards Announced

The BERA Conference 2023 was held at the Conference Aston/ Aston University, 12-14 September 2023. We are pleased to announce the conference award winners. Please click below to view the ECR Best...

The power of culture in shaping early childhood curricula: Insights from the curriculum hybridisation model

Culture encompasses the shared beliefs, customs and artifacts of a group or society, shaping the way of life of a community. Local culture refers to the specific cultural practices unique to a...

A pressing need to align the business studies curriculum with current attitudes

This blog post addresses the issue that, if the school curriculum is believed to be a robust framework for the learner to make sense of their world, then the General Certification of School...

Research by teachers for teachers: the British Curriculum Forum showcase

Individual papers presented under the theme Curriculum, Assessment and Pedagogy Chairs: Gerry Czerniawski, Sarah Seleznyov IN THIS SESSION Can a whole-school focus on celebrating diversity...