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Nationalism in History Education

Nationalist far-right parties have recently gained popularity in Europe and the United States. The current rise of xenophobic populism is connected to a broader backlash against changing...

‘Beyond the Plateau’: Right Problem, Odd Solution

‘Beyond the Plateau’: The Case for an Institute of Advanced Teaching, published by the IPPR last week, identifies probably the key school-level challenge in improving educational outcomes and...

Aspiring leaders understanding their ‘selves’ and/in social contexts

This blog post follows up my initial thoughts concerning opportunities for change in August 2015 (https://www.bera.ac.uk/blog/an-opportunity-for-change). At that time, the opportunities in...

President’s Roundtable Seminar Series: Methodologies for researching with the most disadvantaged in situations of conflict

This roundtable event brought together researchers with experience of carrying out research within conflict and post conflict contexts.  The aim was to explore the methodological considerations...

Reclaiming communities after the Brexit vote

In the aftermath of the Brexit vote, the divide between the south and the north, the disarray in government, and the uncertainty of what will happen in the future need to be considered from a...

The Presence of the Holocaust, c.1970-c.2015

BAHS Conference 2016: The Presence of the Holocaust in society, politics and culture, c.1970 – 2015Bookings Now Open!Organiser: Arthur ChapmanDate – Tuesday 19 July – Thursday 21 JulyContact...

Emerging methodologies welcome here? Not according to twitter

I remember with crystal clarity the moment my research mentor Dr Elaine Hall uttered the words that have come to change my life. We were stood in the corridor outside our offices - where all the...

Learning from the classroom – Practitioner research in mathematics education

Keynote speaker: Dr Alison Clark-Wilson (Institute of Education, University of LondonConvenors: Dr Alf Coles (University of Bristol), Dr d’Reen Struthers (Institute of Education, University of...

Welcome Justine Greening – please take care with English education!

So farewell, Nicky Morgan and Michael Gove. Welcome Justine Greening, our third Conservative English Secretary of State for Education since 2010. This is beginning to look a bit like the musical...

Creative pedagogies and partnerships across the arts and science

Research Commission: Reviewing the Potential and Challenges of Developing STEAM Education

The BERA Commission on Reviewing the potential and challenges of developing STEAM education through creative pedagogies for 21st learning: seminar series   4th SEMINAR - BERA RESEARCH...

Wales and the politics of education

On the 5th May 2016, the people of Wales went to the polls to elect members of the National Assembly – to which all matters of education policy in the country are devolved. The outcome of the...

EERA Summer School 2016: Methods and Methodology in Educational Research

EERA and the Johannes Kepler University of Linz are pleased to announce the 2016 EERA Summer School which will be held at the Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria, from 11 - 15, July, 2016....