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Emma Taylor

Teacher of Geography and Research Fellow, PhD student (Sociology)

Emma Taylor has over 12 years of experience teaching Geography to secondary school students in London. Alongside teaching, she has recently undertaken the role of Research Lead at the school in...

Claire Tyson

Teacher Researcher

Claire Tyson is a teacher researcher based at Homewood School and Sixth Form Centre, where she combines teaching science with her research post. Her PhD was obtained by studying part time with...

Practitioner Research – SIG Convenor vacancy

Call for SIG Convenor The Practitioner Research SIG aims: To contribute to the generation of theory, knowledge and expertise about practitioner research and the exploration of different...

How research can inform teachers and teaching in schools

Despite renewed efforts in many countries to align educational practice more closely with findings from educational research, there is little clarity about how teachers can, in principle, use...

Practitioner research and commentary in a networked society

Over the past decade, self-published polemic on education topics has become widely disseminated through a burgeoning culture of social media, and has increasingly challenged the products of...

The edublogger, the school and the academy

In December 2018, BERA published my blog, ‘In pursuit of a secure base? Education commentary in times of socio-political uncertainty’. The core point of that article was to consider a topic...

CollectivED: Curating voices in professional learning

The thread As a new professor I was invited to establish a research and practice centre, and it was suggested by the dean of my school that creating a working paper series would be a valuable...

Pedagogic appropriateness: Judging quality in practitioner enquiry

Most teachers would not dream of giving a non-reader a text-heavy piece of comprehension with 20 or more questions to answer without some support or scaffolding, if at all. Neither would we ask...

Synergising research in early childhood education: Creating a collaborative space between close-to-practice research and academia

Since the turn of the 21st century there has been a push for teaching to become a research-based profession in a way that is practically relevant to the classroom. The recent research report...

Academic or practitioner? Border-crossings and close-to-practice research

My professional career started in the mid-1980s. It has involved a journey from school teaching into higher education: I have worked as a research fellow, lecturer, professor and university senior...

Editorial: Practitioner research and commentary in a networked society

Over the past decade, self-published polemic on education topics has become widely disseminated through a burgeoning culture of social media, and has increasingly challenged the products of...

Towards ‘slow pedagogy’: Revaluing the reading seminar for professional development

How ‘old school’ can it get? A text on the table and a small group of people around it. All have read the text, and gather to discuss it together. That’s the setting of a reading seminar....