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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....

#BlackLivesMatter in education

The sickening death of African-American George Floyd by suffocation at the hands of a White-American policeman has justifiably fuelled the force of the #BlackLivesMatter movement across the world....

Socio-Cultural and Cultural-Historical Activity Theory SIG Event

This event has now been postponed. To be kept updated on when this will be reschedule for, please email events@bera.ac.uk.

Children’s awareness and understanding of conflict-related groups in divided education systems

Over 420 million children live in conflict-affected areas (Save the Children, 2019). Conflict greatly disrupts education, with long-lasting negative effects even after peace agreements are signed...

Gurpinder Lalli

Reader in Education for Social Justice and Inclusion

Gurpinder is Professor in Education for Social Justice and Inclusion in the School of Education. Trained as a sociologist and ethnographer, he has a track record in conducting research on the...

Socio-Cultural and Cultural-Historical Activity Theory – SIG Convenor vacancy

Call for SIG Convenor The Socio-Cultural and Cultural-Historical Activity Theory SIG aims: to provide a network for those working with socio-cultural/CHAT theory in education so as to ground...

Youth activism, engagement and the development of new civic learning spaces

The relationships between youth activism, engagement and education are vitally important in the current context, in which the pressures of globalisation and populism are emerging from and fuelling...

Mabel Encinas

Senior Lecturer in Education

Mabel has a strong commitment and passion for equality, diversity, and social inclusion. She is a Senior Lecturer in Education at London Metropolitan University. Her research focuses on creative...

A posthumanist, materialist perspective on artmaking processes may shed a new light on the practices of social inclusion and exclusion in early years settings

Posthumanist approaches to educational research are on the rise. Such approaches reflect our understanding that the ecological aspect of our social interactions, the material and the objects...

Research and Pedagogy in the Classroom

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.   BERA Socio-Cultural and Cultural-Historical...

Globalisation and individualism: Implications for the inclusion agenda

Highlights from the first 1,000 BERA Blog posts

It is known that, over recent decades, societies around the world have witnessed drastic transformations that have affected various facets of people’s lives. These changes have created...

Why we all need liberating from education’s gender war

Statistics released last week show that almost half of all young people in the UK enter higher education. But some groups are still far more likely to go on to university than others.[1] Whereas...