In January 2025, the BBC published an article about the paediatric mental health crisis in England (see Triggle, 2025). Official figures show that one in five children and young people between ...

Cross-cultural collaboration in educational research is more than a methodological choice, it is a key pathway to understanding the diverse cultural meanings that shape early ...

Juan Carlos Brito is an anthropologist and Doctor of Education from the University of Santiago de Compostela. He is associate professor and main researcher at the National University of ...

Dr Gisselle Tur Porres is programme director for the BA in Early Childhood Studies that sits in the Department of Education and Childhood Studies at Swansea University. Gisselle was convenor ...

Dr Hazel Acosta is an associate professor at the Universidad Nacional de Educación who holds a PhD in Development Studies specialising in development and education. She is a ...

Several years after ‘finishing’ collecting data for my ethnographic case study, I still can’t think about leaving the field without worrying about my exit. In 2020 I began my Education ...

Josie Scammell is a fourth-year PhD student at the University of Oxford. Her current ESRC GUDTP funded DPhil research explores the processes of creating and sustaining a ...

In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, attention has focused on young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) or behavioural challenges (see for example the ...

Introduction As a teacher with more than 20 years’ experience across mainstream and alternative provisions, I now lead Primary Literacy at New Barn School in Horsham, England, which ...

What happens when a nationally mandated, play-based early years curriculum meets the realities of schools in socioeconomically disadvantaged communities? The Welsh Foundation Phase (FP) offers ...

Kevin Jones is the Head of Workforce Development and Training for the National Youth Agency. A professionally qualified youth worker, he has more than 30 years’ experience throughout the ...

This BERA Blog special issue responds to increasing concerns around school exclusions that have risen to almost 1 million in England and a government announcement in 2024 to phase out ...