Objects in early childhood education Object-based learning is familiar in early childhood practice. Sociocultural theories of learning conceptualise objects as tools that support ...

It has become second nature: when a question arises, the first thing we do is reach for our phones and access one of the plethora of internet platforms, where we may reliably assume that we ...

With the UK Labour government commissioning Professor Becky Francis to review England’s national curriculum, we have an opportunity to reconsider not just what children should learn but how.

The Race, Ethnicity and Education Special Interest Group challenges systems of oppression that demean and threaten to erase educators and learners of Global South heritage, through discussion and ...

Over the last 30 years, the academic study of intelligence has been in a process of decline, but recently this has changed dramatically. The main catalyst for this change has been the growth of ...

Elsewhere in this issue: Two of BERA’s journals – British Educational Research Journal (BERJ) and Curriculum Journal – announce their annual Editors’ Choice Awards, recognising papers published in the ...

The fifth edition of BERA’s Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research has been revised and updated to enable researchers to conduct their work to the highest ethical standards in any and all ...

Dr Lucy Wenham is an Associate Professor in Sociology of Education at the University of Bristol. She is interested in problems of educational disadvantage, marginalisation and exclusion, and crucially ...

This extensively revised, expanded and updated fourth edition of BERA’s Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research is designed to support educational researchers in conducting research to the highest ...

We are pleased to announce the formation of the new BERA Teacher Network The BERA Teacher network aims to be an inclusive community of educators from early years, primary, and secondary schools and ...

In this report, BERA’s Expert Panel on Assessment argues that school league tables and SATs should be abolished in favour of a new, fairer and more sustainable accountability system. It sets out ...

I was inspired to write this blog post after contributing to a social media soundbite for Black History Month, specifically addressing the challenges Black researchers face. The cognitive dissonance ...