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The importance of the wider context: How an ecological approach can assist in understanding ICT take-up

Those researching technology use in education often switch between excessive optimism and excessive pessimism. They see the opportunities that new technology offers for creativity and a more...

In a practitioner enquiry approach, is reflexivity the same as researcher metacognition?

The connection between metacognition and reflexivity might feel like a relatively academic link to make but, for the two of us, it is about securing practitioner enquiry in the teacher domain...

Teaching professionalism in Norway and Brazil: Why combine concepts and compare countries?

This blog post will address two questions: When studying the teaching profession, why combine the concepts of teacher autonomy and teacher agency? And why compare such different national settings...

Teacher wellbeing: A systemic perspective

Education Support is the mental health and wellbeing charity of the education sector. We provide accredited counselling and welfare support to individuals, wellbeing services that enable schools...

The PGCE journey: Wellbeing and workload

The PGCE route into teaching has the lowest retention rate (Allen et al., 2016). Many students embarking on a PGCE are warned about the challenges of the course, as the following blog extract...

Personal values and trainee teacher wellbeing

Values and wellbeing Many teachers in England and Europe report the demands of their job harm their wellbeing (Education Support, 2019; ETUCE, 2011). Poor wellbeing is cited as a key reason why...

Mental health and wellbeing in doctoral students from black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds

There is a large body of evidence for the poor mental health of both undergraduate and postgraduate students in higher education settings (Peluso, Carleton, & Gordon, 2011), leading to the Higher...

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...