Learning from variation
How can variation theory can be applied to the use of manipulatives to support understanding of early number? This report makes an important contribution to the existing literature on how to teach...
Publication series
Curriculum Investigation Grant research reports
The three reports in this series, published in January 2020, were supported by the Curriculum Investigation Grant for 2018–2019.
- Learning from variation, by Ruth Trundley and Helen J. Williams
- Local language, school and community: Curricular innovation towards closing the attainment gap, by Claire Needler and Jamie Fairbairn.
- Exploring task design as an enabler of leading teaching in secondary schools: Practical curriculum development through the use of theory, by Lorna Shires and Mat Hunter.
BERA and theBritish Curriculum Forum’s biennialCurriculum Investigation Grantis intended to support and recognise the importance of research led by schools and colleges that focusses on curriculum inquiry and investigation. It is awarded to researchers based within schools and colleges, and is intended to enable those researchers to:
- identify an issue impacting on the development of an aspect of the curriculum in their school/college
- design, implement and evaluate a response to the issue identified
- disseminate the processes and outcomes of the inquiry/investigation within the school/college
- develop a strategy to sustain curriculum investigation/inquiry within the school/college
- contribute to research and scholarship in the study of the curriculum.
Click herefor more information about the Curriculum Investigation Grant.
Local language, school and community: Curricular innovation towards closing the attainment gap
An investigation of how schools can, by working in and with local languages and dialects, raise pupils' educational attainment, cultural awareness and self-esteem.
Exploring task design as an enabler of leading teaching in secondary schools
This investigation of how theories of task design can support teaching offers tools to help teachers to develop pupils’ motivation and agency in relation to their subject.
Content in this series
Learning from variation
How can variation theory can be applied to the use of manipulatives to support understanding of early number? This report makes an important contribution to the existing literature on how to teach...
Local language, school and community: Curricular innovation towards closing the attainment gap
An investigation of how schools can, by working in and with local languages and dialects, raise pupils' educational attainment, cultural awareness and self-esteem.
Exploring task design as an enabler of leading teaching in secondary schools
This investigation of how theories of task design can support teaching offers tools to help teachers to develop pupils’ motivation and agency in relation to their subject.
Sharing the ambition: Play and parental interest in Scottish early years education
This report provides evidence from the Sharing the Ambition project, which investigates parents' perceptions of early years education in Scotland, what their priorities are in terms of settings'...
