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Teacher education: A weapon of mass instruction?

Two drivers influence nation states engaging in systemic educational reform: a baffling array of metrics on the subject of learning, performance and effectiveness; and the policy impact of...

Alternative ways of educating teachers to educate children differently: What do curriculum, assessment and pedagogy look like when ‘done differently’?

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 conference looks to bring together teachers,...

Early Career Researcher Symposium Series: Ethical Dilemmas in Educational Research (Staffordshire)

Early Career Researcher Symposium Series 2018: Ethical Dilemmas in Educational Research

This event is now fully booked. Please email events@bera.ac.uk if you would like to receive notice of changes in availability or similar events.  Discussants: Dr Gillian Forrester Dr Julie...

Revisiting the concept of wellbeing in schools

Wellbeing discourses related to children and young people are on the rise not only in research, but also in policy and practice. Often the construct of wellbeing is used as a measure of quality of...

A posthumanist, materialist perspective on artmaking processes may shed a new light on the practices of social inclusion and exclusion in early years settings

Posthumanist approaches to educational research are on the rise. Such approaches reflect our understanding that the ecological aspect of our social interactions, the material and the objects...

Researching for Social Justice and Educational Improvement

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.     Aimed at researchers, doctoral students,...

Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research, fourth edition (2018)

This extensively revised, expanded and updated fourth edition of BERA's Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research is designed to support educational researchers in conducting research to the...

Writing and iPads in the early years classroom

In a recent research project I was involved in, ‘Mobile Devices in Early Learning’ (Gray et al 2017), a teacher, when discussing children’s writing, told me,   ‘The iPad has...

Global Perspectives in Teacher Education

CALL FOR PROPOSALS Deadline 4th May 2018 This exciting joint conference (with the University of Worcester and the BERA Comparative and International Education SIG)  entitled ‘Global...

Festival of Higher Education

The Festival of Higher Education will run for two days from the 13th of June to the 14th and currently has 40+ confirmed speakers including: Andrew Adonis Labour peer former Transport Secretary,...

Symposium on 1968 and its Legacies

In May and June 2018, King’s College London will host six workshops, film screenings, and a symposium to mark the 50th anniversary of the progressive mass protests of 1968.The symposium will...

From zero to hero: Anecdotal tales in pursuit of the elusive doctorate

Dave and I met in 2004 when we both moved from teaching to become senior lecturers. We also embarked on our doctorates at the same time, and ended up keeping close company during our studies. The...