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Following their closure to most students in March 2020, schools in England addressed the pedagogical challenge of remote learning using approaches that varied according not only to school culture...
In my November 2020 BERA Blog, ‘Reading during lockdown: Supporting vulnerable learners’, I reported on the beginnings of a small-scale research project (funded by BERA) to explore the impact...
Continue reading blog postLearning to read is perhaps the most important thing we learn to do. There is significant evidence that being a reader impacts on future social, emotional, economic and academic success. A failure...
Continue reading blog postOver the last decade, the humanities and social sciences have become increasingly interested in the nonhuman (animals, plants, non-living objects) as having agentic and performative capacities. By...
Continue reading blog postOver the last decade, the landscape of research on materiality in educational studies has shifted from an emphasis on semiotic modes to one that considers material relationality and affective...
Continue reading blog postIn common with most teacher educators, I am a big fan of classroom talk. I continually stress to my English subject trainee teachers the huge value of the spoken word and invite them to be...
Continue reading blog postI am Reader in English Education at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. I am an experienced English teacher educator, and came into teaching as a secondary-phase specialist in English and...
International Symposium: Creativity, English and the Arts Transcending borders: Creativity, English and the arts for learning, knowing and hopefulness This one day international Symposium will...
Call for SIG Convenor The English in Education SIG is a forum for researchers to investigate what is a broad and complex area of knowledge: our starting point is the school subject of English,...
This event has now been postponed. To be kept updated on when this will be reschedule for, please email events@bera.ac.uk. What are the pressing issues affecting English teaching in classrooms...
In contexts in which English as a foreign language is a mandatory subject in secondary education, language learning motivation can be a challenge for teachers and ministerial curriculum...
Continue reading blog postI taught English in secondary schools for 10 years, spending 1 year teaching in the USA. I became PGCE English course leader at The University of Reading in 1988, course leader of the MA in...
