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Forest School and its place within a Covid-recovery curriculum

With the easing of pandemic-related restrictions for UK schools, educators’ focus has turned to mitigating the impacts of Covid-19 on children’s learning and wellbeing (see Kumar Jha & Arora,...

Angela Rekers-Power

Lecturer

Angela Rekers-Power is a lecturer in early childhood education at St Ambrose University, Davenport, Iowa. Her teaching career started in the field of secondary English, then shifted to...

Tracey Martin-Millward

Tracey Martin-Millward is Lecturer in Education and a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Education at Oxford Brookes University, with 25 years’ experience as an educator. She began her...

Collaging childhoods’ relationships 

In October 2021, the BERA Children and Childhoods special interest group (SIG) organised the webinar Transforming Childhoods’ Relationships, sharing seven doctoral research studies to explore...

Mona Sakr

Dr Mona Sakr is Senior Lecturer in Education and Early Childhood. As a researcher in Early Years (EY) provision, she has published extensively on creative, digital and playful pedagogies. Mona’s...

The place of education in the government’s draft sustainability and climate change strategy

Recent research on climate change education in England indicates an absence of policy and pro-environmental ambition, and obstruction in relation to both environmental sustainability in general,...

Knowledge about what? ‘The knowledge question’ in the Norwegian curriculum

A fundamental question in education is, ‘What is most worth teaching and learning?’ A variation of this question can be directed from student to teacher: ‘Why should we learn this?’...

Berit Karseth

Berit Karseth is a professor at the Department of Education at the University of Oslo. Her main research and publications are in the fields of education policy, reforms, curriculum studies and...

Anniken Hotvedt Sundby

Anniken Hotvedt Sundby is a doctoral research fellow at the Department of Education at the University of Oslo. Her research interest includes curriculum theory and studies, curricular changes, and...

BERA Doctoral Fellowship

In 2023 BERA invites applications for one doctoral fellowship for a student commencing their studies at a UK institution within the 2024/2025 academic year.  The Fellowship will be for up to 3...

School self-evaluation for school improvement: Principles of effective practice

In developing the National Strategy of Educational Research and Enquiry (NSERE), the Welsh Government conducted several evidence reviews to understand how to foster educational research capacity...

Graduating with another hole in your pocket

This blog post discusses how some families and supporters pay considerably more than others to attend UK graduation ceremonies. This much we already know: higher education is costly. According to...