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Teacher Education and Development – SIG Convenor vacancy

Call for SIG Convenor Northern Ireland and Scotland Representatives The group covers research in initial teacher education, continuing professional development and teachers’...

Lizana Oberholzer

Senior Lecturer in Teacher Education

Lizana Oberholzer is a senior lecturer in teacher education and programme lead for the University of Wolverhampton's International MA in Education, as well as the Early Careers Framework and...

Do you work in a school or in further education and have an interest in widening participation?

Professor Colin McCaig (Sheffield Hallam University) and Dr Jon Rainford (Open University) are guest-editing an upcoming special issue of BERA’s Research Intelligence magazine on the theme of...

Teacher Education and Development – SIG Convenor vacancy

Call for SIG Convenor This SIG has four co-convenors, one from each of the four home countries (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland). We are seeking nominations for all of these...

ITE content and the work of the content advisory group

Identifying components of initial teacher education (ITE) that all accredited ITE providers in England will have to adopt was never going to be an easy task. On the one hand, ITE providers must...

How research can inform teachers and teaching in schools

Despite renewed efforts in many countries to align educational practice more closely with findings from educational research, there is little clarity about how teachers can, in principle, use...

Spotlight on mental health and education: New special interest group hosts inaugural conference

Over 80 delegates attended the first conference of the recently launched Mental Health, Wellbeing and Education special interest group (SIG) at the University of West London (UWL) in July. The...

The use of technology in education and its potential to heal liberated Iraq

While information and communication technology (ICT) has been integrated into education for the last three decades in many parts of the world, this has not been the case in Iraq. ICT was...

CollectivED: Curating voices in professional learning

The thread As a new professor I was invited to establish a research and practice centre, and it was suggested by the dean of my school that creating a working paper series would be a valuable...

Money is not the solution to the teacher shortage – or is it?

In England, less affluent areas have had greater difficulties in attracting qualified teachers than many other parts of the country. In coastal rural areas, which can be highly deprived, 7 per...

What (if anything) do we know about millennial educational leaders?

This blog post explores the concept of the ‘millennial school leader’, ahead of the presentation of our paper at the BERA Conference 2019. Our session will explore the findings of a systematic...

BERA Bites, issue 4: Reimagining a curriculum for teacher knowledge

BERA Bites

The BERA Bites series presents selected articles from the BERA Blog on key topics in education, presented in an easily printable and digestible format to serve as teaching and learning...