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Finding a new path: Building affective online learning spaces for creative writing and arts practice

While we have seen a justified focus upon schools during the Covid-19 crisis, relatively little attention has been paid to how teacher-educators are adjusting their practice. In the UK in...

Covid-19 and schooling for uncertainty

Covid-19 reveals an urgent need to focus on an area of worldwide educational significance: the importance for schools of engaging with uncertainty as a key facet of education. In recent decades, a...

Alternative Education & Arts Based Educational Research SIG Event

This event has now been postponed. To be kept updated on when this will be reschedule for, please email events@bera.ac.uk.

Video art as digital play for young children

In the 21st century, it seems that digital play is an inevitable experience for young children. Studies have claimed that digital devices can support children’s learning (Falloon, 2013) in...

Should arts learning be ‘left to the community’? How the experiences of homeschoolers are shining a light on classroom arts learning

Although there exists a significant body of empirical evidence that demonstrates the value of the arts in education (Bamford, 2006; Ewing, 2010; Unesco, 2010), they nevertheless continue to be...

Pedagogies for the ‘dis-engaged’: Who gets what from arts education?

Not all young people get to access arts programmes. For those who do, the benefits have been widely recognised (de Roeper & Savelsberg, 2009; Catterall, 2012). However not all young people...

Amber Fensham-Smith

Lecturer in Childhood and Youth Studies

Amber is a Senior Lecturer in Childhood and Youth Studies at the Open University in the School of Education, Childhood, Youth and Sport. Her research contributes to understanding learner...

Harriet Pattison

Lecturer

Harriet Pattison is interested in alternative education and alter childhoods. She has done research on home education and is currently researching with a Sudbury Valley model education setting...

Encouraging educational research into nature, outdoor learning and play

BERA has a new Nature, Outdoor Learning and Play (NOLAP) special interest group (SIG)! It has the strategic aim of encouraging educational research into nature, outdoor learning and play across...

Education for Justice

Societies in many parts of the world are still dealing with the colonial legacy of educational systems that served a privileged few. Efforts are constantly made to redress the resulting historic...

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...

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...