Education: The State of the Discipline: A systematic scoping review of the literature on the structures & processes that influence research activities in the UK (original) (raw)
This project aims to provide a clear, comprehensive account of the state of education as an academic discipline in universities; as a field of practice; and as a significant and central element of social and political policy in the four nations of the UK. Reports from each stage of the initiative will equip stakeholders in every part of the sector with the most objective and powerful information on which to base their advocacy for, and their eforts to grow the size, influence and impact of, education. It will also be key to informing decision-making processes within BERA. Two elements are central to the initiative: • the definition of education as an academic discipline that shares characteristics with many other disciplines, including those that have been established for much longer in universities worldwide • the intersections between education and practice (including in teacher education and training), which in recent work has been articulated as 'close-to-practice-research'.
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