What is a discipline and why does it matter? Knowing about our disciplines is more and more important given the increasingly generic demands of teaching and assessment, the proliferating ‘lethal...
Dr Helen Crompton is Executive Director of the Research Institute for Digital Innovation in Learning (RIDIL) at ODUGlobal and a professor of Instructional Technology at Old Dominion University...
In the current era of regulation and regimentation, English teachers’ sense of professionalism is constrained by their ‘policy’ identities (Ball, 2003). Their sense of subject exists within...
Neenaz Ichaporia is EdTech Lead at the British Council, currently based in Mumbai, India. She ensures quality standards and innovation in EdTech for English language teacher (ELT) development. She...
English A-level1 is in steady decline. In England, student numbers have dropped from 83,000 in 2013 to 54,000 in 2023. Research involving teachers suggests that the current GCSE specifications and...
Dr Adam Edmett is Head of EdTech Innovation for the British Council and currently based in Doha, Qatar. Adam has 27 years’ experience in English language teaching and digital learning...
I am a Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Sunderland and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). I have been leading and teaching programmes in Education Studies for...
The spoken word wields immense power. Everyday conversation is the basis of human relationships: communication underpins collaboration, the engine that facilitated the success of our species...
The pressure to ‘fail better’ weighs heavy in GCSE English resit classrooms, echoing Samuel Beckett’s famous words from Worstward Ho. However, this oft-repeated mantra, stripped of its...
This online event was a collaboration between the BERA Digital Education and Philosophy of Education SIGs. We aimed to create a dynamic space for postgraduate students and early career researchers...
This online event was a collaboration between the BERA Digital Education and Philosophy of Education SIGs. We aimed to create a dynamic space for postgraduate students and early career researchers...
The international school sector has seen significant growth in recent years, with the UK-based International Schools Consultancy reporting that there are 13,614 English-medium schools around the...