The Language We Carry Inside
‘Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.’ Italo Calvino Why is it that...
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Can social competence be taught to older children and young adults?
As a practitioner within FE I have observed a variety of different levels of learners where the interaction between them may not always be as I would expect. Some learners clearly display the...
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Postgraduate Forum Series 2016: Dilemmas in Educational Research
Who are these events for? These symposia are for postgraduate and/or early career researchers in education – from those in the various stages of doctoral work, to those who just completed their...
“What am I Doing Wrong?”: When Dark Funds of Knowledge Obstruct Culturally Responsive Instruction
The issue of effectively engaging linguistically and culturally diverse students is one that preoccupies teachers and researchers alike, resonating across rural, suburban, urban, mainstream and...
Continue reading blog postBERA President’s Roundtable seminar series 2015-16
Methodological challenges in education(al) researchBERA is starting a series of presidential round table seminars that will draw on processes of agenda- setting, horizon-scanning, evidence review...
Prestigious award for Prof. Joanne Hughes
BERA Council member, Professor Joanne Hughes from the Queen’s University Belfast Centre for Shared Education has been appointed as the first ever UNESCO chair in globalising a shared education...
Drawing division
At a national and international level, research on very low attaining pupils of secondary age is rare compared to younger age groups, and while there has been increased interest in the past decade...
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New Editors for BJET
We are pleased to announce a new interim editorial team for BJET. This team will edit the Journal from 1st January 2016 until a longer-term appointment is made. BERA is grateful to this team for...
Reading More Wisely
In 2014, ReadingWise invited us to carry out an independent study of its Computer-Based Literacy Programme for Accelerated Reading Acquisition. Following exploratory meetings, schools and adult...
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Issue 128 of Research intelligence looks at "Framing Excellence in Teaching: Towards a TEF For higher education" and features contributions from: Garry McCulloch Hilary Burgess Ruth...
New issue of Research Intelligence out now
The Winter issue of Research Intelligence has just been published. This issue looks at “Framing Excellence in Teaching: Towards a TEF For higher education” as well as all the usual BERA News...
Literacy not just a skill: a critical lens and tool to expose and challenge symbolic violence and poverty
In the last two decades there has been an attention on literacy, principally among countries participating in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) (Grek, 2010;...
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