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Do trainee teachers harm pupil attainment?

A school considering involvement with initial teacher training is likely to ask whether hosting trainee teachers will bring benefits to, or disadvantage, their pupils. This is an empirical...

The Future of Educational Research in Wales

This report, published by BERA in partnership with the Welsh Government, presents the proceedings of and lessons from the Future of Educational Research in Wales conference. Held in Cardiff on 14...

2019 Masters Dissertation Award Winner

Every year BERA recognises academic excellence and rigour in research by a Masters student. This underscores BERA’s commitment to developing capacity, advancing quality and...

2019 Doctoral Thesis Winner

Every year BERA recognises academic excellence and rigour in research by a Doctoral student. This underscores BERA’s commitment to developing capacity, advancing quality and...

Changing culture, changing early childhood curriculum in China

School-based curriculum development (SBCD) has been advocated in order to enhance the quality of early childhood education within the context of modernisation and globalisation (Li, 2005)....

BERA Journals at AERA

Are you attending the 2019 American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting in Toronto? Three BERA journals are hosting meet the editors sessions.  British Journal of...

Bridging existing teen engagement in social media with academic will

Teens are engaged. The challenge educators face is influencing, not controlling, the direction of teen engagement. One way for educators to tackle this challenge is to understand the existing...

Annual Conference 2018

19 March 2019

11th-13th September 2018 Northumbria University The BERA conference went to Northumbria University for the first time. Attended by 762 delegates. This conference had keynotes from Carol...

What is school science for?

Science is now being taught to more pupils than at any time in history. This has come about in part because governments across the world have acknowledged the importance of science and technology...

Linking school teachers’ practice with research in educational technology: A call to action

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the British Journal of Educational Technology (BJET), Melissa Bond (University of Oldenburg), Dr Olaf Zawacki-Richter (University of Oldenburg) and Dr Mark...

Transformative pedagogy in teacher education: Lessons from PE teacher educators

Over the last few years and throughout my PhD I have focussed on teaching for equity and diversity to improve the social ills that plague our society through my subject matter: physical education....

English literature: An aesthetic form of knowledge

English literature was introduced as an essential component of Britain’s school curriculum in the early 20th century as part of a broader effort to create, inter alia, an education system based...