This SIG offers a space for researchers, policy makers and practitioners located in a wide variety of settings, to discuss and interact on matters of interest pertinent to creativity in education.

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 ...

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 ...

For the first 20 years of his career Paul worked in research and undergraduate teaching in physics. During this time he also became involved in assessment work, both as a member of the JMB schools ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Dave Stacey is a senior lecturer in initial teacher education at the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David. He is a former secondary school teacher with an interest in curriculum innovations and ...

This report, on one of the three research projects to receive the British Curriculum Forum’s Curriculum Investigation Grant for 2018–2019, investigates how variation theory might be applied to the use ...

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 ...