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Collaborative distance-learning in a time of coronavirus

Covid-19, education and educational research

James Derounian of the Association of National Teaching Fellows offers tips on delivering quality distance-learning for quarantined students.

Weipeng Yang

Assistant Professor in Early Childhood Education

Weipeng Yang, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in Early Childhood Education at The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. He specialises in early childhood curriculum and pedagogy with...

BERA joins call to cancel the introduction of Reception Baseline Assessment (RBA) in the Autumn term

BERA President Dominic Wyse is one of the co-signatories to an open letter that calls upon the Government to abandon its plan to introduce the reception baseline assessment into primary schools in...

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...

Language counts when learning mathematics with interactive apps

Educational maths apps are increasingly popular in young children’s early learning experiences. When available in multiple languages, maths apps can offer the opportunity for learning in the...

What we can learn from degree apprenticeships and work-integrated learning

The British government’s introduction of degree apprenticeships (DAs) in 2015 marked a turning point in the delivery of both higher and vocational education in England. When announcing the...

Unpacking students’ situated knowledge and reflections in large lectures

In large lectures, it is quite hard to involve and engage students, and if the teacher poses questions during the lecture, many students will refrain from raising their hands out of fear of being...

Curriculum Making

This event has now been postponed. To be kept updated on when this will be reschedule for, please email conference@bera.ac.uk. Large scale national curriculum reform is a prominent feature of...

A research approach to curriculum development: A British Curriculum Forum event report

A collection of groundbreaking new work on collaborative curriculum, research and development.

A Curriculum for Wellbeing: A British Curriculum Forum conference

Update (Friday 13 March): unfortunately the conference previewed in this blog, which was to be held on Saturday 14 March, has been postponed. To be kept updated on its rearrangement please email...

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...

A real, immersive and purposeful curriculum

In a primary school context of nine academies in the West Midlands, our curriculum framework is underpinned by theories from John Dewey’s 20th-century approach to project-based learning (PBL)....