BERA Publications Committee: Call for new members
We are pleased to announce the call for members to apply to join BERA's Publications Committee: one ‘ordinary’ committee member, ideally with expertise in open access publishing and/or...
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The roles of school leaders and teachers in a technology-facilitated instructional reform
Generous access to technologies in the digital age provides alternative resources for educational practices. While the educational use of information and communication technology (ICT) increases...
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Exploring synchronous, remote collaborative interaction between learners using multi-touch tables in UK primary schools
Background Research strongly suggests that collaborative group learning activities build deeper and more transferrable knowledge (O’Donnell & Hmelo-Silver, 2013). Developing collaborative...
Continue reading blog postManaging Transitions in Education, Support & Social Care
Transitions are a locus of anxiety for children and young people, especially those facing uncertain futures or those with additional needs. Against the backdrop of funding cuts and the closure of...
Supporting laboratory professionals in low- and middle-income countries to learn about antimicrobial resistance on the job
Professionals working in laboratory settings in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) undertake a range of tasks in their day-to-day jobs. These tasks range from collecting patient specimens to...
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Opening Pathways from Critical Research to Policy
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. In 2015 BERA critical education researchers took a...
Call for Papers: 2nd Language Policy Forum
Call for Papers: 2nd Language Policy Forum (British Association of Applied Linguistics) Edinburgh, 30-31 May 2019 Following our highly successful inaugural conference in 2018 - where...
The impact of teacher supply challenges on high-quality subject-specific mentoring
It is widely reported that the teacher supply crisis in the UK impacts greatly on the development of learners in schools right across England (Worth, Rennie, & Lynch, 2018). This issue is not an...
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ECR Network Event Funding Scheme – Period 4 Winner
The BERA Early Career Researcher (ECR) Network seeks to provide financial support to its members with one such offer being the ‘Event Funding Scheme’. The ‘Event Funding Scheme’ provides...
Developing readers, developing selves
The process of reading actually changes the neural connections in our brains, enabling new thought processes to form and develop our thinking (Wolf, 2008). Indeed, the experience and act of...
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Co-teaching and 21st century pedagogy
Co-teaching provides a collaborative pedagogy in initial teacher education, whereby co-teachers share expertise to: improve the learning environment for students, and develop each other’s...
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England’s computing curriculum: A clash of values, beliefs and purpose
How does industry’s participation in the creation of education policy impact upon what happens in the classroom? My recent ethnographic case study (Larke, 2019), of how England’s national...
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