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Slow Education leads to rich and balanced learning

In 1986 Italian food journalist Carlo Petrini was walking through Rome with friends. On reaching the Spanish steps they were faced with a new addition to the city’s ancient architecture – A...

BERA Research Commission 2015/2017- Poverty and Policy Advocacy

The Research Commission on Poverty and Policy Advocacy Child poverty is increasing in the UK. But how does that play out differently in the four UK jurisdictions, in relation to education? How do...

BERA Research Commission 2015/2017- Cost, Value and Quality in Professional Learning: promoting economic literacy in medical and teacher education

How are we to understand the cost, value and quality of university-based professional learning and development? This BERA Research Commission has examined the role of universities in professional...

The implementation of the high impact findings from Professor Hattie’s seminal work “Visible Learning – A synthesis of over 800 meta-analyses relating to achievement”

“It is perhaps education’s equivalent to the search for the Holy Grail” commented Warwick Mansell on 23 September 2009. From here came the arrival of, for some people, an age of...

Poverty & Education in four jurisdictions and internationally

Research Commission: Poverty and Policy Advocacy

The BERA Commission on Poverty and Policy Advocacy: seminar series       Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk for...

Teaching reading: what are our long term goals?

In the light of the House of Commons Education Committee Inquiry into the purpose and quality of education, I’ve been pondering on the primary profession’s long-term goals for teaching reading...

‘I don’t need the British to communicate in English’. Social connectedness and the international student experience

The ‘international student experience’ is of increasing interest to researchers, educators and policy-makers alike. Social connectedness has been found to be key to the quality of this...

BERA Research Commission 2015/2017 –Reviewing the Potential and Challenges of Developing STEAM Education

Reviewing the Potential and Challenges of Developing STEAM Education through CreativePedagogies for 21st Century Learning: how can school curricula be broadened towards a more responsive,...

Career Long Professional Learning as a Disposition

Career-long professional learning and professional development is something we have been thinking and talking about for many years now, but we don't seem to have cracked this particular conundrum...

Problematising the CPD (Continuing Professional Development) Needs of Early Years Educators in England

Aileen Kennedy’s (2005) ‘most read’ article was used as a starting point for a current research project that explores the CPD experiences of a sample of Early Years educators in the north of...

Bringing Teacher Education Forward

The University of Oslo, Norway is hosting a conference on 'Bringing Teacher Education Forward - National and International Perspectives” on 6-8 June 2016.This conference aims to bring teacher...

In the eye of the storm: Reclaiming the ‘pedagogical’ in teacher education

You are like a hurricane. There's calm in your eye. - Neil Young In Flanders, the government recently commissioned a review of Flemish teacher education. The final report, with the interesting...