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Education Unmasked: An interview with the Chartered College of Teaching

In this episode of the BERA Podcast we learn what the Chartered College of Teaching (CCT) has achieved so far, and discuss the unique challenges and opportunities that Covid-19 has presented for...

Children’s reflections on home education during the Covid-19 pandemic: Implications for the return to school

As school leaders plan the return to school following the global pandemic, it is crucial that their educational decisions are informed by research into the everyday realities of enforced home...

Re/framing Educational Equity: An international collaboration

Across the world, nations aspire towards educational equity. Very often, this aspiration is involves efforts to close what is often called the ‘education gap’ or the ‘attainment gap’. Many...

International Perspectives on Teacher Education during Covid-19 and Lockdown

This episode of the BERA Podcast discusses the challenges and opportunities for Teacher Education during the Covid-19 pandemic from an international perspective.

This is not a one-year blip: If we have to have a national assessment system, it shouldn’t be this one

This is not a one-year blip: If we have to have a national assessment system, it shouldn’t be this one Although calls for root-and-branch reform of our national examinations systems aren’t...

Myth busting our curriculum: Enabling all to achieve

The island of Zanzibar where I was born was famous – or infamous – on two accounts: clove plantations and slavery. From the 17th century until 1909, spice plantations were worked by Black...

Finding a new path: Building affective online learning spaces for creative writing and arts practice

While we have seen a justified focus upon schools during the Covid-19 crisis, relatively little attention has been paid to how teacher-educators are adjusting their practice. In the UK in...

In Conversations with…Professor Usha Goswami

This episode of the BERA Podcast features an interview with Professor Usha Goswami (University of Cambridge) one of the 2020 John Nisbet fellows.

Deaf children and social wellbeing: The evolution of the special school for the deaf

Research has shown that deaf children experience disadvantage in the education system (Berry, 2017). This disadvantage is associated with a lack of tailored pedagogy, being educated in...

Meena Wood

Meena Kumari Wood FRSA, MBA; a former HMI (Ofsted) works across the British and International Education sectors. She held senior leadership positions in English schools and Further education...

Francis Gilbert

Senior lecturer in education

Dr Francis Gilbert was a teacher for 25 years in various UK state schools. He is the author of many books, including I’m A Teacher, Get Me Out Of Here (2004), Analysis and Study Guide: Dr Jekyll...

Miranda Matthews

Head of the Centre for Arts and Learning

Dr Miranda Matthews lectures in art and education and is head of the Centre for Arts and Learning at Goldsmiths University of London. Miranda’s work at Goldsmiths has included being a tutor on...