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BERA’s 2019–2020 research commission on the early years – entitled Competing Discourses of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC): Tensions, Impacts and Democratic Alternatives across the...
Continue reading blog postYou’re at work late on a Friday night. The clock reads 9:58pm, and you’ve just finished providing feedback for the very last of your students’ essays. In the corner of your office, you spot...
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Promoting spatial ability skills through educational robotics: Are they equally effective for girls and boys? Over the past few decades there has been a lively debate about the quality of...
Continue reading blog postIn 2020, the UK government will introduce a multiplication tables check for primary school children aged 8–9 in England. ‘Times tables’ are a contentious issue because they represent a lot...
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Every day, teachers face challenges with including students who are inactive participants in the classroom. Such challenges may involve social difficulties – such as shyness, disruptive...
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The BERA Postgraduate Forum research symposium I attended provided me with the opportunity to present my work in a supportive and critically constructive environment, providing me with invaluable...
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There is a continual debate and discussion about exams – whether it is standard attainment tests (SATs) at primary school or GCSEs and A-levels at secondary – and how effective they are not...
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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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Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk for details of how to register onsite. Recent national initiatives, such as the Maths Hubs,...
This article argues that the valid pursuit of Mastery style Maths teaching could lead to deeper understanding in children and is a worthy goal. However, it will not be achieved fully without...
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Keynote speaker: Dr Alison Clark-Wilson (Institute of Education, University of LondonConvenors: Dr Alf Coles (University of Bristol), Dr d’Reen Struthers (Institute of Education, University of...
When I told teaching colleagues I was thinking about ‘manipulatives’, there was a sense we all knew what this meant: the resources in our maths cupboard. This seems at odds with what has been...
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