Meg Maguire is Professor of Sociology of Education at King’s College London. Meg's research is in the sociology of education, urban education and policy. She has a long-standing interest in ...

This series celebrates one decade of the BERA Blog, as an important and growing space to explore current and varied issues and questions of concern to the education community. To mark ...

Education policy in the UK is characterised by change, churn and disruption as successive governments somewhat inevitably recognise ‘problems’ in education to be ‘fixed’ with ...

Sentience–sapience relations are of particular interest because they contribute to determinations of what a human being is, how human beings are different from other animals, meanings that ...

The relationship between poetry and philosophy is ineluctable (unavoidable and inescapable) and widely understood. Although in this blog post we won’t go as far as to claim, like Coleridge, ...

This SIG is a supportive and collaborative community of practitioner researchers working in a diverse range of contexts. It brings together those with a special interest in all those (closely related) ...

The new Labour government has made a commitment to support the early years sector, as well as launching a curriculum review. This presents us with an opportunity to revisit Labour’s 2007 ...

Providing a forum for sharing, developing and disseminating research that explores, informs and improves outcomes in education. We recognise that the field of education is diverse and political and as ...

The new Labour government has made a commitment to support the early years sector, as well as launching a curriculum review. This presents us with an opportunity to revisit Labour’s 2007 ...

The Philosophy of Education SIG supports the development and dissemination of philosophical research in education and its interdisciplinary links. Educational research is an inherently ...

The new Labour government has made a commitment to support the early years sector, as well as launching a curriculum review. This presents us with an opportunity to revisit Labour’s 2007 ...