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March Of The Four Year Olds

On 25th April 2019 More than a Score organised a march from Parliament Square to 10 Downing Street to hand in a petition calling for a halt to statutory tests for four-year-olds. The petition had...

BERA joins the Society Publishers’ Coalition

BERA has joined the Society Publishers’ Coalition (SocPC). This is a group of likeminded, not-for-profit learned societies and membership charities who publish  as part of their charitable...

Where is the ‘theory’ within the field of educational technology research?

We know that research in the field of educational technology has grown substantially in importance over the last decade or so – mainly due to the huge investment by many governments in...

It’s time to place our students first, by putting feedback first

You’re at work late on a Friday night. The clock reads 9:58pm, and you’ve just finished providing feedback for the very last of your students’ essays. In the corner of your office, you spot...

Exploring learning entanglement

Learning spaces are changing. Classrooms, once filled with uniform furnishings and distinct ‘teacher’ and ‘student’ territories, are being reimagined to provide learning spaces that...

Five ways in which Edu-exit was the test run for Brexit

Brexit is the current and incredibly dangerous version of the ongoing and deeply rooted restructuring of UK health, welfare, security, and education services. Comparing the UK government reforms...

What next for curriculum?

People are talking about curriculum again. Not just literacy and maths, but the whole curriculum. What’s more, there seems to be a real appetite for these discussions: organisations as diverse...

Between a hard place and a hard place: A study of ethical dilemmas experienced by student teachers while on practicum

Drawing attention to the types of ethical challenges faced by experienced teachers has been an internationally common teaching approach in pre-service teacher education when exploring the ethical...

Exploring senior leaders’ experiences of off-rolling in mainstream secondary schools in England

Ofsted defines off-rolling as   ‘the practice of removing a pupil from the school roll without a formal, permanent exclusion or by encouraging a parent to remove their child from the...

The thinking school: Why we need teachers and children who can think

Context The thinking school is one in which staff learning is seen to be as significant as pupil learning. The simple premise for the development of this dynamic learning community is my belief...

BERA ECR Network Symposium Series 2019: Analytical Approaches in Educational Research (Northern Ireland)

BERA ECR Network Symposium Series 2019: Analytical Approaches in Educational Research

BERA wants YOU if you: • Are a postgraduate research student (PGR) or early career researcher (ECR) in education; • Have issues around data analysis to discuss that have arisen (or could...

BERA ECR Network Symposium Series 2019: Analytical Approaches in Educational Research (South)

BERA ECR Network Symposium Series 2019: Analytical Approaches in Educational Research

speaker presentations: Abigail O’Brien Hatice Yildirim   Other events in this series: BERA ECR Network Symposium Series 2019: Analytical Approaches in Educational Research (Wales) 29...