In a recent article published in the British Educational Research Journal, I explore how children’s agency operates within England’s primary education system, and propose the concept ...

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.

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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 ...

BERA’s ethics and guidance documents are used by educational researchers and those active in many other disciplines. Our publications include the following documents. The fifth edition of BERA’s ...