I am a newly minted PhD from the School of Education and Professional Development at the University of Huddersfield. Two months after graduation, I am still coming to terms with the ‘what...
Many countries follow policies of inclusion in which pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) are, as far as possible, educated in mainstream settings. For the most part this...
A new special offer on BERA membership is now live: Join BERA today as a 2019 member and receive the rest of 2018 completely free - that's 16 months of membership for the price of 12...
In their recent BERA Blog article (10 August), Komatsu and Rappleye raise the idea that the high achievement of Asian education systems – and specifically Japan’s educational achievements –...
Recently, we published our first BERA Blog about doctoral journeys and how low educational starting points don’t necessarily prohibit academic achievement. In that blog, we identified five key...
For young children, understandings of technology as a cultural tool are both ‘inherited and transformed’ (Rogoff 2003: 51), and often differ from previous generations’ perceptions of...
As more people gain university degrees, people are increasingly aware that some degrees may be worth more than others. We know that the British socioeconomic elite is dominated by people who have...
Since the inception of international comparative tests in the 1960s, Japanese students, like most students around east Asia, have consistently outscored their Anglo-American peers (that is, the...
The editorial team of the Review of Education (RoE) and BERA and are pleased to announce the winners of the 2018 RoE Editors’ Choice Award, which recognises articles published across the...
Open educational resources (OERs) are: ‘[A]ny type of educational materials that are in the public domain or introduced with an open license. The nature of these open materials...
Every day, teachers face challenges with including students who are inactive participants in the classroom. Such challenges may involve social difficulties – such as shyness, disruptive...
Every year BERA recognises academic excellence and rigour in research by a Masters of Education student and a Doctoral student. This underscores BERA’s commitment to developing capacity,...