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REF 2021 Update

Many thanks to those members who self-nominated for the REF panel. As you know, BERA Council established a small group led by Professor John Leach with the support of Professor Margaret...

Abstract submission now open for BERA Conference 2018

BERA is please to announce that the abstract submission has now opened for the BERA Conference 2018 to be held at Northumbria University, 11th-13th September 2018. SUBMIT/EDIT AN...

Is school choice a reality for all?

We know that parents are given some choice over which school their children can attend. To this end academics, drawing on work by Bourdieu (1990), have explored the habitus and culture of both...

Educational imaginations to save the future?

At an ESRC-Palgrave-Springer Festival of Social Science event about social sciences impact, held at the Royal Society on 7 November 2017 (#FossImpact), I asked a question. Before I repeat this...

Lessons from the past: Why Winifred Mercier’s work still resonates

As teacher educators we have found ourselves sharing academic, developmental and philosophical interests and recently we have found a further shared dimension: that of the life, work and legacy of...

BERA blog highlights from 2017

BERA Blog end of year highlights

While the demise of 2017 will generate little tear-shedding amongst many of our readers, it has been another bumper year for the BERA Blog. Just over two-and-a-half years after its inception, the...

Problematising mediatised policy-making: Newspaper coverage of PISA emphasising quality and neglecting equity

We live in interesting times. We see global social media campaigns such as #MeToo, #BlackLivesMatter and #illRideWithYou responding to social, economic and political injustices, while on the other...

Sites of resistance: Gypsies, Roma and Travellers in school, community and the academy

Schools are institutions in which racial conflict is brought into focus and can be acute. Gillborn (2008) asserts that current education policy is not designed to eliminate race inequality, but to...

Bringing policy into being through word and code

Today’s educational policy is co-produced, through policy bureaucrat’s words and technocrat’s lines of code. The global move towards digital governance and the digitising of educational...

CCT Chartered Teacher Programme and BERA

BERA is dedicated to supporting and promoting teacher research.  We believe practitioners, academics and policy makers must collaborate to help shape a future curriculum in schools. As part of...

Preventing what? The flawed assumptions at the heart of the Prevent duty

The Prevent duty (2009, 2011, 2015) is a statutory requirement upon all educational professionals to have due regard to prevent individuals being drawn into terrorism. Criticisms of the Prevent...

Telling stories: How can narrative practices better support education professionals during times of transition?

Why is identity problematic for teacher educators? Identity transformation for early-career teacher educators has been shown to be problematic in the move from ‘expert teacher’ to ‘novice...