The BERA Guides: Critical Insights into Educational Research and Practice
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Editorial: Doing cynefin: Exploring ideas on belonging, connectedness and community in the Curriculum for Wales
Wales is a small country that is distinctive in its landscape, culture and language. This gives the notion of place a particular resonance in Wales and reinforces the significance of local...
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Doing cynefin: Exploring ideas on belonging, connectedness and community in the Curriculum for Wales
Wales is a small country that is distinctive in its landscape, culture and language. This gives the notion of place a particular resonance in Wales and reinforces the significance of local...
Diversity and Anti-Racist Professional Learning (DARPL): Establishing anti-racist education, through the lens of cynefin
It is clear that cynefin/belonging lies at the heart of the Curriculum for Wales and is at the core of DARPL. As a result, a sense of cynefin for Welsh learners and educators is a powerful...
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Do I finally feel a sense of cynefin?
The Curriculum for Wales defines cynefin as ‘the place where we belong, where the people and landscape around us are familiar, and the sights and sounds are reassuringly recognisable’. My...
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Race, racism and hope
In August 2023, I became the inaugural recipient of the BERA Equality in Education Award in recognition of my race equity work in education. In this blog post I reflect on how race and racism have...
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Degrees of difference: Exploring degree-award gaps
At the BERA Conference 2023 our symposium was the first to examine attainment disparities in racially minoritised university students. Four papers showed how interpersonal relationships,...
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How do female Muslim teachers manage the challenges of homogenisation and stereotyping in an educational context?
Introduction This blog post is based on my doctoral research. I look at identity and belonging in education; how female Muslim teachers (FMTs) respond to stereotypes in the classroom; and the...
Continue reading blog postParent engagement in school curriculum: Whose voices get heard?
Image by Freepik School curriculum has always been a contested space where parents, teachers and policymakers expressed their often-divergent views on purposes of education. Such debates...
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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...
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...
Continue reading blog postGuest editing opportunity for Research Intelligence, issue 160
Education and democracy
