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Improving the connectivity of research on teaching assistants: Creating a new space for researchers

The international drive towards the inclusion of pupils with special educational needs (SEN) in mainstream schools has become contingent on the creation and utilisation of a paraprofessional...

Towards developing an education continuity plan: Supporting schools in times of crisis

Education & Covid-19: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports

This report considers how educational continuity plans (ECPs) can better support schools in times of crisis, specifically from the perspective of headteachers, whose experiences, challenges and...

The impact of Covid-19 on early years settings & their staffing decisions

Education & Covid-19: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports

This report shares insights into how Covid-19 impacted upon on the early years workforce in England, Wales and Scotland during the first year of the pandemic, focusing on how pre-existing issues...

New teachers’ responses to Covid-19: Building on initial teacher education for professional learning

Education & Covid-19: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports

A great deal of international research has suggested that teachers struggled with the pivot towards online learning necessitated by the closure of schools in response to the Covid-19...

Editorial: Embedding sustainability education in practice

The global issues of climate change, protecting the environment, and ensuring equity and fairness for all continue to gain increasing prominence in everyday consciousness. The role of education to...

A case study of blended pedagogies used in an early years undergraduate degree

This case study explored the tensions of using digital technology alongside an outdoor, sensory approach to learning (Sakr, 2020; Hughes, 2011); the effects on student learning; and the...

Developing a sustainable Wales & beyond

With ink barely dry on the Curriculum for Wales, which was universally accepted in Wales on 10 March 2021, the purpose-driven curriculum that Graham Donaldson (2015) outlined has set out a clear...

Education & Covid-19: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports

This series of reports presents the findings and recommendations of 14 research projects  that have investigated Covid-19's impact on important aspects of education and educational research. This...

Interrogating the notion of the seaside idyll in the context of initial teacher training

The prevalence of disadvantage in remote, economically depressed coastal areas of England is reflected in government initiatives aimed at turning around education in certain regions such as the...

Leadership in schools during the pandemic

Online registration for this event has now closed, to register please email events@bera.ac.uk #BERA_Leadership @BERANews @BERA_TED This session will reflect on the challenges in carrying out...

Education for sustainability: Connecting learners with nature

Education has become an increasingly important part of the international agenda to raise awareness of how we can support action to shape a more sustainable way of life (Rieckmann, 2012). Enshrined...

Teacher micropopulism on social media

When you invest years in thinking about what populism is and how it manifests on social media, it is easy to forget that, for many, ‘populism’ is seen as a negative term, and that individuals...