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The (Proposed) Teaching Excellence Framework: Whose world-view is this anyway?

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.This BERA Higher Education SIG event provides the...

Explaining Trump’s Rise, Educationally

The rise of Donald Trump as front running Republican Party presidential candidate in the United States has startled many left-liberal leaning members of the society, and captured the attention of...

The essence of social pedagogy

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Could the study of historical contingency help to enliven students’ critical citizenship?

Critical citizenship education often amounts to training in critical thinking – rudimentary discourse analysis or media criticism aimed at developing critical literacy skills. Such skills are...

Using visual methods to help us move from researching on to researching with

My recently completed PhD (Clark, 2015) explored my 23-year long (meandering) academic journey through participatory research. I have always been interested in how we can do research differently...

Pupil voice in quality assurance of schools

Highlights from the first 1,000 BERA Blog posts

The importance of quality assurance in education is established both by politicians and teachers alike. Schools embrace quality assurance primarily because they recognise its role in...

Professional Practice in an Age of Extremism: implications for education and HE

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.Education and educators are increasingly identified as...

Some thoughts on the purpose of education

The UK is a divided society and many current educational systems maintain inequality and rivalry. Intergroup tensions underpin international conflict. Instead of prioritising competition and...

How to research critical conversations in educational leadership?

A memorial event for Dr Anne HalsallOnline registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk for details of how to register onsite.This event creates a...

Understanding Cost, Value and Quality in professional education

Research Commission: Cost, Value and Quality in Professional Learning: promoting economic literacy in medical and teacher education

Seminar 1: Using evidence to inform policy and practice in teacher education and medical education - 11th February 2016 Seminar 2: Understanding Cost, Value and Quality in professional...

BERA Election Results 2016

We are pleased to announced the outcome of the recent elections for BERA Council.Gary McCulloch has been elected as the incoming BERA Vice-President. Gary will take up this role at the AGM in...

Shifting identities: a mixed-methods study of the experiences of teachers who are also parents

My research project, for a Doctorate in Education at Middlesex University, examines the experiences of teacher-parents in UK maintained schools, and poses the central question: What is the...