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Call for papers: ‘Challenging curricular hegemony through international perspectives’

A special issue of the Curriculum Journal

Teacher agency in enacting physical education in a period of curriculum change and reform in Ireland

This blog pulls on elements of a larger study which aims to understand the enactment of curriculum policy through different curriculum policy stakeholders’ perspectives – such as curriculum...

Curriculum making as relational practice: A qualitative ego-network approach

Teacher networks have been identified as an essential element for the improvement of education reforms and consequently have attracted increased interest from educational researchers (Daly,...

Building a Curriculum for a Sustainable Future

Online registration for this event has now closed, please email events@bera.ac.uk to register.   #BERA_Sustainability There is no time like the present to look at our world as it is. This...

A curriculum for wellbeing: Improving all aspects of wellbeing in curricula & schools

How should the wellbeing of both pupils and staff be integrated into curriculum development? This collection, edited by Victoria Pugh, presents answers to this question from a diverse range of...

Misled by short-term performance in lessons: Applying the science of memory in the classroom

Successful learning depends upon the functioning of human long-term memory (LTM) – a set of psychological processes that allow us to retain skills and knowledge over the long term, and which...

‘The significant return to normality’: Back to school in England, but who is missing?

As part of the gradual lifting of lockdown measures in England, following the ‘second wave’ of the Covid-19 pandemic here, schools reopen wholesale today, 8 March 2021. For many parents and...

Curriculum, Assessment and Pedagogy SIG Annual Meeting 2021

Join the Curriculum, Assessment and Pedagogy  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...

Children’s agency: What is it, and what should be done?

'Oh my God. The Principal came in today and chose a child to read. I knew what I had to do: I knew I had to remind the child to say "p. 35 chapter 4"; I had to remind the child to hold the book in...

Potentialities in health and physical education: professional boundaries and change agendas

This BERA event was organised to showcase a special issue of the Curriculum Journal entitled ‘Potentialities in health and physical education: Professional boundaries and change agendas’,...

What ‘building back better’ really means for our children: Anne Longfield’s final speech as the children’s commissioner for England

On February 17 2021, Anne Longfield OBE gave her final speech as the children’s commissioner for England. Her words were a clarion cry for the UK’s children, who for the past 12 months have...

BERA Bites, issue 7: Exploring the impact of Covid-19: Pedagogy, curriculum & assessment

BERA Bites

The coronavirus pandemic and its associated lockdowns upended our lives and presented challenges and consequences that were previously unimaginable. Teachers were flung in at the deep end with...