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BERA and the Curriculum

Following the General Election on the 4th July 2024, The Labour Government committed to a range of policies, relating to education, in the King's Speech. The Labour manifesto pledged to a review...

The BERA Guide to Decolonising the Curriculum

The BERA Guides: Critical Insights into Educational Research and Practice

Equity and Inclusion in Educational Research and Practice

New editorial team appointed for the Curriculum Journal

BERA is delighted to announce that, following a competitive recruitment process, a new editorial team has been appointed for the Curriculum Journal. From January 2025, the team will comprise six...

Curriculum in a Changing World

50 think pieces on education, policy, practice, innovation & inclusion

Autumn 2024

Research Intelligence issue 160: Democracy & education

Guest editing opportunity for Research Intelligence, issue 162

International comparative education

2024-2025 BCF Curriculum Investigation Grant Winner: “Meeting the challenge of Artificial Intelligence for teaching and learning”

The BCF Curriculum Investigation Grant is intended to support research led by schools and colleges’ with a focus on curriculum inquiry and investigation. The grant is worth up to £5,000 for...

BERJ Early Career Reviewer Scheme: Call for mentors

The British Educational Research Journal (BERJ) is pleased to launch its Early Career Reviewer Scheme that aims to build early career researchers’ capacities in academic peer reviewing. This...

Climate in the classroom: A big year for sustainability and climate education

It’s a pleasure to have been asked to give an overview of work on sustainability and climate education both at the BERA/British Curriculum climate crisis event on November 16 2023 and for this...

Putting climate and biodiversity at the heart of education: A National Education Nature Park approach

Education is central to addressing climate change (UN, 2023), but it is often left to science and geography. Recent research (Monroe et al., 2019; Rousell & Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, 2020)...

How a monoculture of corn mirrors the education system and why we need to go against the grain

Figure 1: Against the grain This illustration uses the metaphor of a monoculture to conceptualise the interplay of systems, drawing parallels between education and agriculture. I created this...

The double dividend of sustainable school food

Sustainability means different things to different people, depending on where they live and what they do, so context is king. In our work on sustainable foodscapes, we use the idea of a ‘double...