BERA Conference 2017 – Keynote Lectures
For educational researchers the BERA Annual Conference is an important date in their professional year. It provides the opportunity to: network with existing colleagues support new...
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Why might BERA wish to thank Margaret Thatcher?
What does BERA owe to Margaret Thatcher? It sounds like a weird pub quiz question, and may have an even weirder answer. When BERA’s inaugural conference met in Birmingham in April 1974,...
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JOIN BERA now for 2018 and receive three months of 2017 Free! BERA is delighted to offer new BERA members an exciting opportunity - join BERA now for 2018 and take advantage of BERA's fantastic...
The value of Literacy as a Social Practice approach to exploring young children’s experience of being taught to read and write in school
Over the last thirty years in English and Welsh State primary education, successive governments have placed increasing emphasis on ‘raising standards’ in literacy. Children’s attainment or...
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Literature’s lasting impression: what makes shared reading of novels powerful?
The twelve-month research project Literature’s Lasting Impression⃰ investigates a defining convention of classroom literary study, shared novel reading. Most people remember ‘reading round...
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Critically Examining the Emergence of Teach First
In the latest issue of the British Educational Research Journal, Allen and Allnutt (2017) assess, using longitudinal data, the impact of Teach First teachers on secondary pupils’ outcomes. ...
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Learning about learning and teaching through collaborative observation
Teaching excellence has been at the centre of debates about quality in English Higher Education (HE) in recent years. The introduction of the Teaching Excellence Framework has ratcheted up this...
Continue reading blog postResearching pathways into higher education with students from refugee backgrounds: Exploring the conceptual, methodological and ethical challenges
We are thrilled to have been selected to represent the Australian Association for Research in Education as a featured symposium at this year’s BERA conference. We believe that the selection of...
Continue reading blog postSchool subjects – a missing piece in research on school governance?
In a recent study (Prytz 2017), I show that a standard narrative about Swedish school governance in the 20th century does not fit how the school subject mathematics (years 1–9) was governed in...
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How can medical education and training better reflect the acute realities and demands of 21st century healthcare? Problematising notions of professionalism, pedagogies of clinical practice and the politics of Care
“. . . health services across the UK are working harder than ever to deal with the fierce pressures of winter and when it’s being reported that emergency departments and primary care...
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White working class-boys: Teachers matter
I have been interested in the educational achievement of white working class students since the late 1970’s when teaching in very deprived parts of south London, left me feeling that something...
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Hyper-governance and datafication in early years education: children as ‘abilities-machines’ or ‘like sausages in a factory’
The growing use of data in education has both been lauded as a revolution and criticized as detrimental to teachers and children; no wonder then that it is increasingly a focus for educational...
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