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CCEAM 2018 – Professional Learning: a leadership opportunity and challenge

CCEAM 2018 will be held in Malta from 13 to 15 November 2018. The theme of the conference is "Professional Learning: a leadership opportunity and challenge", which focuses on the central role...

Performative education policy and the challenges for teachers with specific learning differences

Presently there are gaps in the body of research on teachers with specific learning differences (SpLDs). Where research on the matter does exist, it tends to focus on resilience strategies in...

To thrive, new teachers need environments of trust

Having just attended BERA’s Annual Conference at the University of Northumbria, I have been reflecting on the diverse range of talks I attended, and some of the key research messages that I...

BERA Bites: A resource for teachers, lecturers and students from the BERA Blog

The BERA Blog editors are pleased to announce the launch of a new series of publications: BERA Bites, edited collections of selected articles on key topics in education published on the BERA Blog....

The impact of policy on leadership practice: growing a research agenda

Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk for details of how to register onsite.     The Impact of Policy on Leadership...

BERA Bites, issue 2: Educational leadership: Are our schools fit for the future?

BERA Bites

The BERA Bites series presents selected articles from the BERA Blog on key topics in education, presented in an easily printable and digestible format to serve as teaching and learning resources...

Students experience empowerment and empathy through pedagogical partnership

Student empowerment can take many forms. Some, such as new student activism and student consumerism, can feel threatening to faculty and higher education communities. Others offer a...

Alternative ways of educating teachers to educate children differently: What do curriculum, assessment and pedagogy look like when ‘done differently’?

Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk for details of how to register onsite. This conference looks to bring together teachers,...

‘Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field’: Ethics and educational leadership research

This blog reports on the BERA event, ‘Ethics and Educational Leadership Research’, held at the Open University, Milton Keynes, on 28 March 2018. Carol Azumah Dennis’s keynote focussed on the...

The ethics of educational leadership research

Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk for details of how to register onsite.   Researching educational leadership can raise...

Researching the Curriculum in schools and colleges: Practice, Professionalism and Innovation

A BCF Event for schools, colleges and universities   This British Curriculum Forum (BCF) event brings together teachers, practitioners, researchers, leaders, managers, and academics to share...

Refocusing schools as ‘learning organisations’: A new direction for school improvement?

How are successful schools measured? By being judged ‘1’ by Ofsted? By excellent SATs or A-level results in a single year? By being popular with parents and having buoyant admissions? No. It...