Good showing at BERA 2016

Posted on 19 September 2016

York Education academics and research students gave 10 presentations at the annual British Educational Research Association (BERA) conference.

Themes included how hip-hop music is used to explore issues affecting young people, barriers to completion in HE, preschool transition, Shakespeare and criminal rehabilitation and evidence based interventions for reading, maths and resilience.

BERA is a membership association committed to sustaining a strong and high quality educational research community.

York-led sessions at the conference in Leeds included:

Tuesday 13^th September

Eleanor Brown and Laura Nicklin

3.50 pm. Room LT07 (Roger Stevens) (8th Floor, Blue) Spitting Rhymes and Changing Minds: Using Spoken Word and Hip-hop Music to Explore Issues Affecting Young People.

Maria Ana Chavana Villalobos

3.50 pm. Room LT12 (Roger Stevens) (10th Floor, Red) Staying or leaving the course: exploring barriers to course completion in Higher Education.

Wednesday 14^th September

Angel Urbina Garcia

1.50 pm. Room LT03 (Roger Stevens) (7th Floor, Green) Teachers, Headteachers and Parents' Views: What do we know about the preschool transition in Latin America?

Laura Nicklin

4:35 pm. Room LT07 (Roger Stevens) (8th Floor, Blue) "Condemn the fault and not the actor of it": An Ethnographic Portrait of Shakespeare-focussed Arts Education Programmes used for Criminal Rehabilitation.

Thursday 15^th September

2.30 pm. Room LT22 (Roger Stevens) (12th floor, Orange) PERC Symposium: Designing and developing evidence-based interventions for reading, maths and resilience

Kathryn Asbury (Convernor)

Elpida Pavlidou

Claudine Bowyer Crane et al.

Hugues Lortie-Fuentes

Poppy Nash

Chris Kyriacou (Discussant)