The importance of children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing is well recognised today and is clearly of enormous concern to educationalists. A body of evidence supports the negative...
This workshop will focus on the new statutory changes within RSE and Health Education and the ways in which PSHE can be developed within schools to positively enhance wellbeing for pupils. The...
This presentation highlights the initial findings of a small-scale project examining the experiences of 13 self-selecting gay and lesbian teachers working in Primary and Secondary schools in...
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...
BERA is closely monitoring the developments around the coronavirus (COVID-19) situation. Our position as a charity is to do our best to continue the delivery of our activities in as safe and...
BERA is closely monitoring the developments around the coronavirus (COVID-19) situation. Our position as a charity is to do our best to continue the delivery of our activities in as safe and...
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...
Prior to moving to Cambridge in January 2003, Usha Goswami was Professor of Cognitive Developmental Psychology at the Institute of Child Health, University College London. She received her Ph.D....
Call for SIG Convenor The purpose of the Educational Technology SIG is to provide a meeting place for BERA members interested in the application and impact of new technologies in education across...
Ian is former President of BERA, 2013-2015. At OUDE he was Director of Professional Programmes and led the development of the Oxford Education Deanery. Before moving to Oxford, Ian was Professor...
Following a very competitive election, we are delighted to announce the outcome of the 2020 BERA Elections. The election for Council was highly competitive and three candidates have been...
The opportunity to make music together is an important strand of every child’s education, fuelling creative, expressive and social development. A recent report by the Musicians’ Union (2019)...