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Review of Education: Call for ‘State-of-Play’ special issues (2024)

The editors of the Review of Education (RoE) intend to publish a number of ‘State-of-Play' (SoP) special issues during their tenure, which commenced in January 2024. They are therefore seeking...

Nurturing children’s personalities: Value affection and care through being in nature

In many classrooms in England, teachers are struggling to prioritise the nurturing of children’s personality, as recommended in Article 29(1a) in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of...

The BERA Guides: Critical Insights into Educational Research and Practice

Short, research-informed yet accessible introductions to key, interdisciplinary topics impacting education research and practice

Education and democracy & History of education: BERA Brian Simon Fund research reports

The research presented in this series of reports was funded by a grant from the Brian Simon fellowship fund. Held in trust by BERA, the fund was a gift from the family of Brian Simon, a leading...

Land: what is it for & how do we decide?

Education and democracy & History of education: BERA Brian Simon Fund research reports

A democratic study of children & their families’ perspectives

Embracing child-centred education: A path to learning freedom

Introduction The field of education is constantly changing, and since the Covid-19 crisis there has been a renewed emphasis on child-centred education. As a final-year PhD research student...

Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research, fifth edition (2024)

The fifth edition of BERA’s Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research has been revised and updated to enable researchers to conduct their work to the highest ethical standards in any and all...

Identifying tensions between school readiness policy and teacher beliefs, knowledge and practice in early childhood education

This blog post is based on my recent article published in the British Educational Research Journal (Kay, 2023). Using data from semi-structured interviews with two teachers, the paper addresses...

Exploring children’s experiences: The value of metaphor, film and photography

Many who conduct research with children in schools will be familiar with interview responses that are monosyllabic or seem designed to please (Mayall, 2008). Children can be shy, wary of...

Guest editing opportunity for Research Intelligence, issue 160

Education and democracy

Growing up green: What value is placed on accessing outdoor environments across different childcare and educational settings?

BERA Conference 2023

It is well known that spending time in nature is beneficial for children (Chawla, 2015). However, in Britain, children now spend less time outside than previous generations (Moss, 2012), which has...

Personality-sensitive pedagogies: A mixed-methods study of small-group interactions among 9–10-year-olds

BERA Conference 2023

This pilot study sought to identify relationships between primary pupils’ personality profiles and their patterns of interaction during small group collaboration. In UK classrooms, pupils often...