Introduction What is an effective school leadership in a system that is predetermined by inequality and structural limitations? Educational reform in Pakistan occurs in a diverse, but ...
The fact that student teachers commonly perceive educational research and theory to be far removed from practice is well documented in initial teacher education (ITE) research. Teacher ...
Gillian is a teacher educator and teacher education researcher at Liverpool John Moores University, where she is also Deputy Director of the Liverpool Institute for Educational Research ...
What does it mean to ‘understand’? Despite its centrality to most, if not all educational endeavours, what is meant by ‘understanding’ is not clear and is highly contested (Ross, ...
How can we make educational research meaningful for teachers working in busy classrooms? At Nottingham Trent University (NTU), we explored this question through a close-to-practice ...
Across the world, the importance of foreign language learning (FLL) at school tends to be taken for granted. Or at least it is when the language being learned is English, given its vital role ...
Governing logic In May 2025, the UK government published an immigration white paper, titled Restoring Control Over the Immigration System, which advocated tighter controls on movement ...
Decolonial work is often discussed as if it were principally about knowledge: whose histories appear, whose concepts travel, whose methods count. Yet the deeper claim is ethical. It is about ...
Staff wellbeing continues to sit high on the agenda for schools. But how do wellbeing initiatives translate into meaningful, on-the-ground change? This blog post focuses on the evaluation of ...
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A two-dimensional portrait of leadership? A review of teachers’ professional development in England
The government is conducting a review of the current suite of National Professional Qualifications (NPQs) for school leaders. These are government-backed qualifications delivered by ...
Sabrina Fitzsimons. There is a road sign in Alaska that reads: ‘Driver, choose carefully which rut you drive in – you’ll be ...
Since 2014 BERA has awarded the John Nisbet Fellowship to recipients who are deemed to have made an outstanding contribution to educational research over their career. Named in honour of our ...
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