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The overall aim of the Research Commissions is to identify and address issues of current importance to the study and practice of education which may have future consequences for the discipline and its research communities. They will explore how educational research can respond to the challenges and opportunities raised by the changing nature of education across the four nations.

BERA received a high volume of exceptional applications – in both quality and range, leading to just three outstanding proposals.

'Cost, Value and Quality in Professional Learning: promoting economic literacy in medical and teacher education.’

This proposal is led by Laura Colucci-Gray from the University of Aberdeen and includes a core team of Pam Burnard (University of Cambridge), Richard Davies (Aberystwyth University), Donald Gray (University of Aberdeen): and Jo Trowsdale (University of ÌÇÐÄTV). The focus of this commission is to explore, analyze and collate new understandings of science, how these relate and interface with changes in education and how this might enrich current debates. Reconceptualising school science has crucial implications for pedagogic practices. Specifically the commission will explore:

• the changing conceptualization of science and arts, and the implications for science education;
• the relationship between formal school science as it is currently taught and the differential access to science knowledge affecting groups inside and outside schools;
• the potential of arts-based, creative pedagogies to foster inclusive, participatory and interdisciplinary learning in science.