Research by The Open University Reading for Pleasure consortia shows the advantages of reading for pleasure and the subsequent benefits for children, but is there evidence that children ...

Aims-based school curricula This blog post is about an aims-based curriculum and its place in the English school system. It may seem odd to talk about ‘an aims-based curriculum’. Few ...

John White is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy of Education at UCL Institute of Education, where he worked from 1965 until 2000 after teaching in secondary schools and colleges. During the ...

Vignette: The unexpected It was near the end of the workshop, and the materials table – once a neat arrangement of brushes, papers and pigments – had become a glorious mess. Most of ...

Placing selfhood construction at the centre of social justice provides a useful lens to view emerging ethical debates around Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED) and beyond.

Artwork created by Young People in alternative provision ‘I’m a genius, who’s taking a photo?’ (Kinsella et al., 2019) ‘We do stupida stuff here’ (Johnston, 2020) These ...

Ruksana Beigi is a senior lecturer in Early Childhood Studies at the University of East London, where she teaches across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in the Department of ...

Dr Craig Johnston is a committee member of the Alternative Provision Research Network, a network of scholars and practitioners working in AP who are committed to social justice for children ...

Lyndsey Hayes is a chartered psychologist, Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS), and a psychology teacher at Westminster Tutors Independent Sixth Form College, London. As well ...

Deb Gajic is a chartered psychologist, an associate fellow of the British Psychological Society, and now an independent educational consultant, having retired from full-time classroom ...

There are growing concerns about young men’s mental health (see Aarons, 2025) and its impact on individuals and society (see Over et al., 2025a), with poor mental health being a potential ...

As two of the editors of the BERA Blog, we have curated this series of 10 posts to celebrate one decade of the BERA Blog. As we mark this milestone, we recognise the importance of spaces such ...