2021 Annual Conference
16th Annual Conference Online 24–25 June 2021 Educational Alternatives: Challenges and Possibilities
The International Education Studies Association
Supporting research in Education Studies
The International Education Studies Association
Supporting research in Education Studies
Conference Year 2021
The 16th Annual Conference of the British Education Studies Association (BESA), 24–25 June
Professor Tonia Gray
Professor Tonia Gray is a Senior Researcher in the Centre for Educational Research at Western Sydney University. With a Masters in Community Health and a PhD in Education, Tonia’s transdisciplinary research explores the intersection of experiential education, human-nature relationships, and…
Emeritus Professor David Jardine
David Jardine is an Emeritus Professor of Education, retired from the Faculty of Education, University of Calgary in 2015, and so glad to have got out alive and fairly hale. His main work in that job was supervising student teachers…
Professor Sean Blenkinsop
Sean is a professor in the faculty of education at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. He undertook his doctoral thesis in philosophy of education at Harvard University with a focus on existentialism, education, dialogue, and the environment. His current research explores…
Promoting Praxis in Nurse Education
Evident throughout the pandemic has been the growing impact of the inequalities that exist. With the burden of related illness and death being borne unequally (Stafford and Deeny, 2020). The final toll is yet to be determined. Nurse educationalists throughout…
Exploring the factors of time and space for undergraduate students studying and writing in Covid times
The fallout from COVID related restrictions continues to frame the way students experience and manage studying and writing for assessment. Closing down the physical infrastructure means limiting the benefits of being on campus including how students use time on campus…
Impact of Covid on the challenges associated with ethnographic data collection: reflections on experience as a new researcher
This paper explores the challenges exacerbated by COVID experienced within an ethnography of alternative education. Although it is important to highlight that challenges were experienced pre-COVID, this paper will focus on the challenges related to ethnographic data collection influenced by…
The disconnect about displacement: IDP access to educational alternatives in Iraq in the Covid-19 era
Over six million Iraqis were displaced during the war with Daesh and, although many have returned to their communities, there are approximately1.3 million internally displaced persons (IDP) scattered across the country. Many IDP children in Iraq, whether in camps or…
The Influence of the Interplay of the Students with Dyslexia as Performers, Lecturers as Audience in the University as a Front on the Social Construction of Dyslexia in Higher Education (HE)
This study explores the social construction of dyslexia as a therapeutic consumerist entity in Higher Education (HE) and its influence on students with dyslexia through highlighting marketisation reforms in HE. The paper aims to enquire about the social construction of…
Ecological education: a response to the anthropocene
‘And I had done a hellish thing, And it would work ‘em woe: For all averred, I had killed the bird That made the breeze to blow. Ah wretch! said they, the bird to slay, That made the breeze to…
Education Studies: an international perspective
Education Studies in the UK emerged as an independent subject in the late 1990s. Initially it was introduced in just few universities as an ‘’ideal subject as preparation for teaching and other careers’’ and in combination with other subjects (Simon,…
“When I was 11, I was more concerned about having fun with my friends and playing football” Exploring GCSE students’ perceptions of assessments and the performative culture in schools
Performativity is the outcome of numerous government policies around assessment and accountability which sought state-regulated reform for the purposes of economic growth and educational excellence. Such governance in education has led to individual practitioners living an existence of calculation in…