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Emmajane Milton

Reader in Education

Emmajane has worked in Education for 20 years, enjoying a wide range of senior leadership roles within academia, policy development and the statutory school sector. Emmajane is a National Teaching...

BAME Educators and Covid-19

This episode of the BERA Podcast features an interview with Allana Gay, the founder of the BAMEeD Network.

What can multimodal data tell us about learning? Opportunities for positioning the learner as the real protagonist in learner-centred design

Contemporary educational technology research utilises data such as keystrokes, log files and clicks to interpret complex learning phenomena. In recent years, multimodal data’s potential to help...

Katie Parsons

Katie Parsons is a transdisciplinary research associate at Loughborough University after completing her thesis on the lived experiences of children and young people and their experiences of the...

Spirituality and the Outdoor Space

The notion of spirituality as an ontological priority for children has become more prominent in academic literature in the past decade, not least due to its inclusion in the National Curriculum as...

Rejuvinating art-making as a site for education: The legitimacy of children’s participation

Engaging in arts practices is recognised as having potential benefit in terms of fostering self-esteem, well-being and happiness, social cohesion, creativity, agility as well as promoting academic...

A case study of Self Directed Education

The role of self motivation (Gopalan et al, 2017)and self direction (Biesta, 2010) has long been recognised in children’s learning.  However, in tightly managed and timetabled state run...

Within and beyond the mainstream: realising alternative possibilities across educational stages

Online registration has now closed, to register please email events@bera.ac.uk   #BERA_AlternativeEducation Online event - pre-registration essential Across the global context of disrupted...

Harnessing young people’s interest to boost learning and belonging in flexi schools

For young people in flexi schools, being interested in their school learning is often a novel experience, and one they value highly. Having been disengaged from and by conventional education,...

Intergenerational Learning and Challenge in Informal Places

Intergenerational practice has seen a growth in popularity in recent years due to societal changes and in an aim to reconnect the generations (Vanderven, 2011; Vieira and Sousa, 2016). Although...

Agency and the importance of delegated authority in foster care

It is established that young people in care experience lower academic outcomes than the general population. Some care leavers do achieve at the highest level academically, but the statistics...

Michail Giannakos

Michail Giannakos is a professor of interaction design and learning technology in the Department of Computer Science and leads the Learner–Computer Interaction lab at the Norwegian University of...