The ethics of educational leadership research
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The social categories of gender, race, dis-ability, intelligence, sexuality and class in relation to education
There have recently been calls to adopt approaches to the study of the social world that deny the need to address ontological and epistemological issues. Advocates for these approaches give the...
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BERA’s postgraduate symposium: A lifebelt in the methodological mire
As a doctoral student, BERA’s Postgraduate Forum symposium on research methodology seemed the perfect opportunity to present the methodological aspects of my research to a critical audience...
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Research methods for educational leadership: a professional perspective
This blog coincides with a special issue of Management in Education about research methods for educational leadership. This brings together six papers, resulting from two seminars jointly held by...
Continue reading blog postNegotiating the qualitative-quantitative divide: the best of both
The BERA Postgraduate Forum research symposium I attended provided me with the opportunity to present my work in a supportive and critically constructive environment, providing me with invaluable...
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The experiences and ‘light-bulb moment’ of an early career researcher following a BERA Postgraduate Forum symposium
Though I didn’t realise it at the time, studying while working in the early years sector marked the emergence of my research interests. I was a practitioner at the forefront of new government...
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Walking interviews: A participatory research tool with legs?
Last autumn I was lucky enough to attend one of a series of BERA Postgraduate Forum events that focussed on research methodology. It was pleasing to see that many of the postgraduates in...
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Bringing policy into being through word and code
Today’s educational policy is co-produced, through policy bureaucrat’s words and technocrat’s lines of code. The global move towards digital governance and the digitising of educational...
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Telling stories: How can narrative practices better support education professionals during times of transition?
Why is identity problematic for teacher educators? Identity transformation for early-career teacher educators has been shown to be problematic in the move from ‘expert teacher’ to ‘novice...
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Creative and Innovative Methodologies in Educational Research
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Developing an ethics framework for school based research in the context of a large academy secondary school
Homewood School and Sixth Form Centre is a Secondary School Academy in rural Kent. I have been working as a Teacher Researcher at Homewood since 2014, and during that time I have produced a...
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Living the dream through peer review
I remember reflecting on the experience of attending my first BERA annual conference as a doctoral student in 2008. More specifically, I can recall my initial perceptions of the educational...
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