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 ...

Parental engagement significantly boosts children’s academic success, with evidence from around the world demonstrating an average of four months of additional progress over a single ...

Luke Jackson is a part-time EdD student at the University of Warwick and a full-time Appropriate Body Lead for the Star Teaching School Hub (Birmingham South). Luke is a qualified secondary ...

Savannah Gill is a class teacher at a small primary school in Cambridgeshire and a student at the University of Cambridge. Her dissertation explores how play-based writing pedagogy influences ...

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 ...