Faith, Social Justice and Race
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Music education and social justice
Music education and social justice was the subject of a symposium at the 2016 BERA conference. Entitled Social Justice and Music Education in England and Scotland, and the symposium reported on...
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“I was born here, so I’m British” – What do fundamental British values mean to teachers of RE and year 11 RE students?
Can our values as teachers accommodate the demands of what seems to be a progressively securitised education system? The requirement not to undermine fundamental British values (FBV) was...
Continue reading blog postStories of Change and Transformation and in Further Education
From its origins as the Mechanics’ Institutes in the 1800s, FE has served industry by providing vocational skills to adults to meet the needs of business. However from the beginning it also...
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The transformative nature of adult working-class education and its relevance today
The historical theme of adult working class education in relation to contemporary post school sector, now referred to as the Lifelong Learning Sector, has to some extent been overlooked. Since the...
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Transformational Further Education: Empowering People & Communities
The Further Education in England: Transforming lives & Communities research project, is commissioned by UCU and aims to understand and provide evidence of how the further education (FE) sector is...
Continue reading blog postTransgender Equality Inquiry
In January of this year, the Women and Equalities Select Committee released its report of its inquiry into transgender equality. The inquiry comprised of evidence from transgender community...
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How Entrepreneurship Education can reproduce social inequalities
This article argues for the dismantling of the myth of classlessness in entrepreneurship education. Discourse in favour of more entrepreneurship in education has contributed to a process where a...
Continue reading blog postLiteracy not just a skill: a critical lens and tool to expose and challenge symbolic violence and poverty
In the last two decades there has been an attention on literacy, principally among countries participating in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) (Grek, 2010;...
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How can we do education research in a socially just way?
Social Justice SIG pre-conference event for ECRs The Social Justice Special Interest Group (SIG) held a pre-conference event ahead of this year’s BERA annual conference in Belfast. The event...
Continue reading blog postPakistani boys’ education in Birmingham schools
Pakistani children make-up a quarter of Birmingham’s school population and will soon become its largest pupil ethnic group. A large number of them leave the local schools each year without the...
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Can Social Realism Do Social Justice?
Our BERA presentation, ‘Can Social Realism Do Social Justice: Debating the Warrants for Curriculum Knowledge Selection’, is based on a paper of the same title, soon to be available online from...
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