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How has Covid-19 affected the way in which teacher educators engage their students with learning?

Highlights from the first 1,000 BERA Blog posts

In this blog we seek to understand the impact that the sudden and enforced move to online teaching due to the Covid-19 pandemic has had on the perceptions of teacher educators in initial teacher...

Mental Health, Wellbeing & Education SIG Annual Meeting

Join the Mental Health, Wellbeing & Education SIG annual meeting to network with colleagues, learn about the activities of the SIG over the last year and plans for 2021   This meeting will be...

President Roundtable Seminar Series: Wellbeing – Schools and pupil mental health: do we fix the child or do we fix the school?

President’s Roundtable Seminar Series

Online registration for this event has now closed, please email conference@bera.ac.uk  to register.   Lead: Professor Jane Hurry, UCL Institute of Education BERA Presidential Roundtables...

President Roundtable Seminar Series: Wellbeing – Schools and pupil mental health: do we fix the child or do we fix the school?

BERA Presidential Roundtables provide compelling research reviews offering a state-of-the-art position on topics that are of interest to researchers, practitioners, policy makers and wider...

Meeting the needs of students with mental health challenges in online learning environments

Distance learning might seem to offer an ideal opportunity for students with mental health challenges to study for a degree, as it is flexible and can be done from home with the student...

Do private schools make a difference to mental health?

Parents send their children to private schools for a range of reasons, and we know that British private schools are successful in terms of academic attainment and that their alumni tend to go on...

The good, the bad and the ugly in higher education: Is there any hope for students?

It is an interesting time to be a student. Not a single day passes without newspaper and social media headlines echoing student concerns about the (mis)handling of the Covid-19 crisis on campuses,...

Rethinking class size: The complex story of impact on teaching and learning

The enduring argument over class size is one of the most contested in education. The argument is between many teachers and practitioners who feel that class size makes a big difference to teaching...

Flattening the awarding gap through identity work

The awarding gap is starkest between the likelihood of White (domiciled) students and Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) (domiciled) students being awarded a ‘good’ degree in the United...

Taking a year out? The ambitious teleology of higher education for cultivating a self-aware society

In the much-quoted Heraclitean aphorism, ‘the road up and down is one and the same’ (see for example Russell, 2004, p. 51), the pre-Socratic philosopher introduces a radical relativism and...

Urgent matters of insight: Upholding gaps in higher education research, teaching and learning for super-complexity

To date, Covid-19 has not only highlighted the interconnectedness of societies and individuals, but also that educational endeavours privileging the cultivation of particular human qualities...

Editorial: Teaching and learning in higher education for times of uncertainty

For higher education, Covid-19 has presented a particular challenge: having had to convert our classrooms to online platforms, higher education practitioners have faced the task of teaching and...