Search

Should we always welcome being cited?

Oscar Wilde is often quoted as suggesting that “there is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” Perhaps a corollary is that the worse...

International teaching opportunity for Scottish undergraduate primary teaching students

Globalisation has impacted education increasingly in recent years (Townsend, 2011) and internationalisation has been used within higher education as a concept to explore this (Luginbühl (2011)....

Research in Teacher Education: Networking Event

Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk for details of how to register onsite. This seminar and workshop is intended for teacher...

Teacher Education in Times of Change: recent developments and future challenges

Teacher education across the four nations of the UK is undergoing a period of significant change. This seminar, hosted by the Teacher Education and Development SIG, explores the emergence of...

Beyond the school gates: reciprocal academic leadership

One of the features of the school improvement landscape over the past two decades has been a focus on developing school leadership and how this leadership is used to empower teachers in the quest...

Another fine mess! The allocation of initial teacher training places for 2016

In their excoriating analysis of The Blunders of our Governments, the political scientists Anthony King and Ivor Crewe offer twelve case studies, or 'horror stories', as they call them, from the...

Scholarship opportunity: Investigating new forms of teacher education

Project summaryMany new routes into teaching are being developed by government policy, particularly in England via school-based training. The project will investigate these new routes and...

Teacher educators’ identity

Systematic research on the development of a professional identity of teacher educators is still scarce, but there are indications that teacher educators who become involved in professional...

Universities, schools and a system in flux – looking back on Carter and looking forward to the future of Initial Teacher Education in England

In 2014 I was part of the Carter Review of ITT – an experience that was rewarding, intense and often stressful. I met a student teachers, mentors, heads, university and school based tutors, NQTs...

‘Do It Yourself’ Professional Development (DIY PD)

Before moving in to my current role in teacher education I worked as a primary school class teacher. I loved my job but nearly every Tuesday I would trudge in to the staffroom for a CPD session....

Teacher agency: What is it and why does it matter?

Highlights from the first 1,000 BERA Blog posts

The concept of ‘teacher agency’ has elicited a fair amount of attention recently, including a special edition of Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice. And yet, it remains an elusive...

Applying Intelligence to Teacher Education

I was motivated to write this blog after Michael Wilshaw, Her Majesty's Chief Inspector, gave a speech about teacher recruitment and training at the Festival of Education, at Wellington College on...