Suparna Bagchi
Suparna Bagchi is a final-year doctoral student at the Plymouth Institute of Education, University of Plymouth. She worked there as a Doctoral Teaching Assistant from 2019 to 2022. Suparna’s...
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What are we educating for in early childhood education?
The overall question of this BERA Blog special issue can be understood in two different ways: what is being done now at the current time by educators (what are we educating for), and it can also...
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What could we be educating for in primary education?
We know that the primary timetable is overcrowded, testing is embedded in almost every year of a child’s primary schooling (Wyse et al., 2022), and expectations of what teachers must cover grow...
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Engaging with educational policy in difficult times
In December 1987, Secretary of State for Education Kenneth Baker summed up the purpose of the Education Reform Bill as ‘standards, freedom and choice’. Underpinning the bill was the belief...
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The BERA Blog team to expand with three new editors
As the highly successful BERA Blog continues to grow in output and readership, we are delighted to announce that we are expanding its editorial team. In the coming months, the BERA Blog will...
The complexity of the relations between policy, research and practice in primary education
I would like to believe that our national policymakers for primary school education seek out the relationship between policy, research and practice. I’d like to think that to achieve this they...
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The politics of reforming secondary education
The biggest mistake of the 1997–2010 Labour governments was the failure in 2004/5 to implement Mike Tomlinson’s report on the future of the secondary education curriculum and assessment. In...
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Educating for sustainable futures in secondary education
What are we educating for in secondary education? In a world where if we want to know something we can just ‘google it’, and artificial intelligence can generate essays, presentations or...
Continue reading blog postHoward Scott
Howard Scott is a senior lecturer in post-compulsory education at the University of Wolverhampton. He works in initial teacher education and his research involves technology-enhanced learning in...
A vital role for further education: Educating extra-ordinary young people
This blog post focuses on the overlooked and precarious middle in the English education system: further education and the young people who participate in it. In Helena Kennedy’s words, further...
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Editorial: What are we educating for? Introducing the BERA Blog Special Issue
This BERA Blog special issue started out as a seminar series in which we brought together policymakers, educational practitioners and researchers to discuss what we are educating for across the...
Continue reading blog postWhat are we educating for? Education policymaking in England
Education represents no less than our vision of society, and the people in it. It represents values. How education policy is made tells us about whose values are prioritised, what sources of...
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