Education for our planet and our future
Climate change is arguably the most pressing educational imperative of modern times, yet in our universities and communities – and within BERA itself – it remains relatively underdiscussed....
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How inaction on climate chaos has forced our kids to become the vanguards of change
As educators, we are cognizant of the mantra ‘education is an investment in the future’. Our future, quite frankly, is looking bleak in terms of our inaction in the face of the impending...
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The renaming of time and the timing of the name
Geologists divide time ‘according to marked shifts in Earth’s state’ (Lewis & Maslin, 2015, p. 171). It has been argued that the impact humans have had and are having on the planet’s...
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A war for our world: Reframing the climate crisis
At the time of writing, I notice poppies are on sale for Remembrance Day. It strikes me that ignoring the effort to defeat Hitler would have been unthinkable – it framed everything we did. It...
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The right to protest: A children’s rights perspective on the school climate strikes
In August 2018, Greta Thunberg began her solitary school strike outside the Swedish Parliament, protesting against her government’s inaction on the climate crisis. Since then, she has sparked a...
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Halting the rise of character education in Britain
Character education has risen up the political agenda in the UK in recent years, as it has in a number of other countries. The United States, Canada, Australia, Singapore, Japan and Taiwan have...
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Rescuing educational inclusion for autistic children
There’s a distinct sense of weariness surrounding the issue of educational inclusion generally, with discussions dominated by metaphors of moribundity and decomposition. While some have stated,...
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General Election 2019: Where do the Tories, Labour and Lib Dems stand on education?
What can we expect from the three main UK political parties if elected to government? I have compared the education sections of the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat manifestos. (All...
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Winter 2019
The latest issue of Research Intelligence showcases the strength and depth of recent research on post-compulsory and lifelong learning.
School accountability by Progress 8: A critique of Conservative and Labour proposals
The Conservatives and Labour hold different views on the future of England’s system of school accountability by Progress 8. However, both parties’ thinking is at odds with the research...
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Children’s awareness and understanding of conflict-related groups in divided education systems
Over 420 million children live in conflict-affected areas (Save the Children, 2019). Conflict greatly disrupts education, with long-lasting negative effects even after peace agreements are signed...
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School readiness, early years education and neoliberal subjectivities
This symposium built upon BERA’s research commission, Competing Discourses of Early Childhood Education and Care, and critically explored why and how early childhood education and care (ECEC)...
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