Summer 2018
Research Intelligence issue 136: Ethical issues in educational research This special issue on research ethics accompanies the publication of the new, fourth edition of BERA's Ethical Guidelines...
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The educational implications of Lionel Shriver’s attack on diversity ‘quotas’
‘[I]f an agent submits a manuscript written by a gay transgender Caribbean who dropped out of school at seven and powers around town on a mobility scooter, it will be published,...
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Using tablets in free play: The implementation of the digital play framework in Greece
The integration of technology in the early years of education has followed a rocky path, with many obstacles to overcome. Together with research around the use of new technologies by young...
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The 1988 Education Act: Legacies for the Present
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. 2018 marks the 30th anniversary of a landmark piece...
Further reasons why educational research needs working papers
In a recent, very well-written blog, Professor Alice Sullivan argues that it is high time for UK education journals to abandon the practice of viewing the fact that a paper has been circulated as...
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Researching the perceptions and experiences of children and young people who have a parent with young onset dementia
As the leading cause of death in England and Wales (ONS 2017), dementia touches many families and, even if they don’t have a relative with the condition, most people at least know of someone who...
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A baseline without basis: The validity and utility of the proposed reception baseline assessment in England
This report sets out the case against the government’s proposal to use a baseline assessment test of pupils in reception to hold schools in England to account for the progress that those pupils...
BERA Conference 2018 Programme Now Live
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Linking environmental science to the curriculum for Excellence on an initial teacher training programme
The focus of Scottish initial teacher training programmes on numeracy, literacy and child development has undergone change over the last few decades, primarily due to the requirements set out in...
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Internationalisation Webinar Series
The internationalisation webinar series has been running since 2007 as part of an initiative organised by Dr Joanna Al-Youssef (University of Nottingham). It is an open event during which...
Cultures of compassion in early childhood education
Unpleasant experiences, like hurting oneself, missing parents, or being excluded from play, are evident parts of early childhood education (ECE). Although we cannot (and sometimes should not)...
Continue reading blog post‘Evidence’ and the EEF toolkit: Reliable science or a blunt set of tools?
‘Evidence-based teaching’ is one of those feelgood phrases (think ‘school improvement’, ‘leadership’, ‘standards’) that it seems churlish to oppose. All the more important, then,...
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