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

https://youtu.be/u2yEoiAF2bs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOtc4Ofrpfw&t=3467s   Across the global context of disrupted schooling during the pandemic, interest in alternative methods,...

Andrew Mansfield

Dr Andrew Mansfield is a Research Associate at the University of Sussex. He was a lecturer in history and taught at both the University of Sussex and Goldsmiths, University of London, and worked...

Victoria Carr

Headteacher

Victoria is a primary school headteacher in the North West of England, a post she has held for seven years. She is a mum, of two teenagers. In her spare time she is a British Army reservist and...

The right to protest: A children’s rights perspective on the school climate strikes

This episode of the BERA Podcast discusses the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the climate crisis school strikes, and how schools can work to acknowledge and facilitate...

BERA Appoints Members to the College of Reviewers

As an organisation we are committed to principles of openness, integrity and transparency and seek to uphold ethical values in all our activities and processes. The newly established BERA College...

A Freirean resistance: Conscientização against the right-wing Escola sem Partido movement in Brazil

Over the past decade, attempts to micromanage teachers’ work within classrooms while also limiting their freedom of speech have increased and become a major disruption to Brazilian educators....

Jorge Knijnik

Jorge Knijnik is a Brazilian-Australian academic currently working as an associate professor in the School of Education at Western Sydney University (Australia), where he is a researcher in the...

A study of Progress 8 and school accountability in England

In this episode of the BERA Podcast Dr George Leckie (University of Bristol) discusses his research: “The importance of adjusting for pupil background in school value-added models: A study of...

Alice Veldkamp

Alice Veldkamp is an instructional designer at the Freudenthal Institute, and a teacher educator at the Graduate School of Teaching at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.

Wouter R. van Joolingen

Wouter R. van Joolingen is professor of mathematics and science education at the Freudenthal Institute at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. His research focusses on models and modelling in...

Escape boxes: Bringing escape room experience into the classroom

Escape rooms can provide golden experiences for education. Problem-based, time-constrained, and requiring a team of active and collaborative participants, escape rooms offer an immersive...

Two worlds collide? The role of Chinese traditions and Western influences in Chinese preservice teachers’ perceptions of appropriate technology use

This blog post is based on our recent article in which we explored how Chinese preservice teachers perceive appropriate technology use in early childhood education (ECE) and how Chinese traditions...