Having worked as a teacher educator since 2006, I’ve observed significant changes and developments from the perspective of my roles in a University and as director of a SCITT. As an evolving...
Just over twenty years ago, following a PhD in school based ITE (Articled Teachers, soon to be defunct) to the sound of seagulls in glorious Devon, I found myself in London – part of a big ESRC...
Schools are bombarded with products and courses that claim to be informed by research in Neuroscience and/or Digital Technology. Despite warnings from the OECD, the Royal Society (UK), the...
In 1999 higher education ministers from 29 European countries signed the Bologna Declaration (currently 49 signatory countries) and committed themselves to the creation of the European Higher...
BERA is looking for a research assistant to work in support of a working group revising the BERA ethical guidelines. The work will require up to 20 days between November 2016 and June 2017. We...
Over the last twenty years many writers, including ourselves, have drawn attention to the affective in educational organisations, including Fineman (1993, 1999), Hargreaves (1998a; 1998b), Beatty...
This short text aims to shed some light on the education of first year child welfare pedagogues in Norway. These are undergraduates and social pedagogy is mandated in their education and...
PRESENTATIONS FROM THE DAY 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 one day conference...
I read with great interest Ali Messer’s BERA blog (4th August 2016) which accords with the findings and recommendations arising from my research on the development of subject knowledge for...
Abstract submission is now open for the British Educational Leadership Management and Administration Society’s (BELMAS) Annual Conference in 2017. The conference brings together research...
I have been pondering the effect of the neo-liberal economic and social world order on education and everyday life. In many ways the neo-liberal mantra is accepted as a kind of monolith – a...
BERA is please to announce that the abstract submission has now opened for the BERA Conference 2017 to be held at the University of Sussex, 5th-7th September 2017. Submit/Edit an...