Happy 5th birthday to us! To celebrate, we are sharing our 𝗧𝗼𝗽 𝟱 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 posts. Starting with this one, from former Director of Education for the Swedish National Agency of Education, Gunnar Iselau on the Swedish school system. #EERA5for5 #EduSci https://blog.eera-ecer.de/swedish-school-system/

Happy 5th Birthday #EERAblog! Thank you to the 170+ authors who have submitted to the EERA blog and the 80,000 visitors who engaged with the EERA family by reading, commenting and sharing. We're looking forward to an exciting 6th year. Join the conversation! #EduSci https://tinyurl.com/2fbmy2j4

𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴 𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘃𝗲: "Children's rights policy ... demands the researcher puts their gaze on the child's interests and entitlements (not just those of the school, teachers, or parents)." - #EERAblog #EduSci https://blog.eera-ecer.de/human-rights-in-educational-research/

𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴: How AI can enable informed dialogue, streamline communication, and bridge gaps, enhancing collaboration, autonomy, and equity in student-led initiatives. #EduSci https://blog.eera-ecer.de/ai-informed-student-activism/

Working recently at the EERA Desk during ECER 2025 in Belgrade, we realized that many people have questions about what exactly ERC, ECER and EERA stand for and what role the Networks play. For answers to these questions (and more): https://tinyurl.com/4mfsnwvf

𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴 𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘃𝗲: "It is impossible to develop intercultural competences without experience with OTHERS. We will never know who we truly are without exposure to foreign cultures" - Dr Wenderlich #EERA_NW24 #EERA_ERG #ERG #EduSci https://blog.eera-ecer.de/intercultural-competences/

𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴: Encouraging AI-informed student activism can create a more democratic, equitable, and peaceful world, ensuring education aligns with genuine student needs. #EduSci https://blog.eera-ecer.de/ai-informed-student-activism/

𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴: Encouraging AI-informed student activism can create a more democratic, equitable, and peaceful world, ensuring education aligns with genuine student needs. #EduSci https://blog.eera-ecer.de/ai-informed-student-activism/

𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴 𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘃𝗲: Education researcher Dilara Özel and English teacher Ayşegül Yurtsever explore activites in foreign language lessons to help students develop crosscultural understanding - with tips for foreign language teachers. #EduSci https://blog.eera-ecer.de/foreign-language-classrooms/

𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴 𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘃𝗲: For school leaders, digital capacity building in new digital educational development is crucial and necessary action must be taken, argues Dr Kafa on our blog. #EERA_NW26 #EduSci https://blog.eera-ecer.de/school-leaders-digital/

XIV International Research-to-Practice Conference “School Education in the Digital Age: Key Trends and Challenges” Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan, 30-31 October 2025. Full information: https://beyim.edu.kz/conference

Warm congratulations to the #ECER2025 Best Poster Winners Sofia Marques da Silva and Sara Faria. Learn about Sofia and Sara and the poster "Transitions From Higher Education to Low Density Areas: Graduates' Motivations For Returning And Impact On Their Home Communities": https://tinyurl.com/4s8fcp64

EERA would like to warmly congratulate the #ERC2025 Best Poster Award winner, Adriana Cunha (University of Minho, Portugal). You can learn more about Adriana and view her poster "Becoming a Teacher: Master Degree Students Reflecting on Their Learning Experience" here: https://rdar.li/vRBVAPn

𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴: Policy language matters. When teaching is framed in transactional terms like “delivery,” “roll-outs,” “performance indicators”, we risk stripping away the complexity and creativity of professional learning, says Dr O'Donnell. #ECER2025 #EduSci

𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴 𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘃𝗲: Gaston Bacquet on the view that Western culture is somehow at the core of 'universal knowledge' and the need for undoing and reconstruction of how we learn @EERA_NW4 #EERA_NW7 #EduSci https://blog.eera-ecer.de/decolonizing-knowledge-undoing-and-reconstructing-how-we-learn/

𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴: Business-style language like ‘delivery' and ‘roll-out' risks reducing education to transactions. A call to reclaim a richer educational discourse by Dr Ciara O'Donnell #ECER2025 #EduSci https://blog.eera-ecer.de/transactional-language-in-education-policy/

EERA would like to warmly thank the 2486 participants, 793 reviewers, 920 chairpersons and the wonderful, welcoming local organisers and volunteers for an inspiring and fruitful #ECER2025. See you at #ECER2026 in Tampere!

𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴: Confronting recent U.S. policy changes in higher education, Dr. Redman interprets transformative learning as a co-created journey of vulnerability, strength, and collective resistance. #ECER2025 #EduSci http://blog.eera-ecer.de/transformative-learning/

𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴: Amid shifting U.S. policies that undermine sustainability and equity in education, Dr. Redman views transformative learning as a shared process of resilience, kinship, and resistance. #ECER2025 #EduSci http://blog.eera-ecer.de/transformative-learning/

𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴: Education reform deserves language that reflects its complexity. When policy borrows corporate vocabulary, we risk reducing teaching to a transaction rather than a deeply human, transformative process, says Dr O'Donnell. #ECER2025 #EduSci...

New on our blog: Using multimodal and narrative methods, this research creates heterotopic spaces where young men reflect on race, justice, and belonging. #ECER2025 #EduSci https://blog.eera-ecer.de/co-creating-narratives-with-black-caribbean-boys/

#ECER2025 Belgrade Keynotes will be livestreamed on Wednesday, 10 September and Thursday, 11 September 11:00 – 12:00 (CEST). Click here for info on the speakers and their keynotes and the links to the livestreams https://eera-ecer.de/conferences/ecer-2025-belgrade/keynote-speakers

𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴: This project amplifies the voices of Black Caribbean boys who reimagine literature, race, and masculinity against deficit perspectives. #ECER2025 #EduSci https://blog.eera-ecer.de/co-creating-narratives-with-black-caribbean-boys/

Thank you to the #ECER2025 poster presenters and all those who visited the General Poster Session at the Kinoteka today for making it such a lively and interactive event.

Wonderful to see you all at the #ECER2025 Welcome Reception at Silosi last night, and to catch up with long-time colleagues and meet new ones.

#ECER2025 Belgrade Keynotes will be livestreamed on Wednesday, 10 September and Thursday, 11 September 11:00 – 12:00 (CEST). Click here for info on the speakers and their keynotes and the links to the livestreams. https://eera-ecer.de/conferences/ecer-2025-belgrade/keynote-speakers

𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴: In response to US policy shifts in sustainability education, Dr. Erin Redman reflects on transformative learning as a collective act of resilience and resistance. #ECER2025 #EduSci http://blog.eera-ecer.de/transformative-learning/

#ECER202 Belgrade begins! Welcome 2617 participants from 73 countries who have come together for academic exchange, inspiration, networking and fun. Keep an eye out for the wonderfully helpful volunteers and don't miss the delicacies at the coffee breaks.

𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴: AI tools are transforming data analysis by offering fast, accessible insights. But should we trust AI to guide critical research decisions? Prof. Dr Demir on using AI tools well. #ECER2025 #EduSci blog.eera-ecer.de/nlp-tools-for-education-research/

Pre-ERC at #ECER2025 impressions: the walking tour group and the ERG Link Convenor Lisa Bugno in front of the Faculty of Philosphy, the local volunteers, ERC pronoun pins and the Pop Up Playground in the Fac of Philosophy.

The last preparations for #ECER2025 are underway at the University of Belgrade. We are looking forward to welcoming 454 emerging researchers from 57 countries to the Emerging Researchers' Conference tomorrow and 2617 participants from 73 countries to ECER on Tuesday.

𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴: Education researchers are increasingly turning to AI-based NLP tools for support with data analysis. Prof. Dr. Demir on opportunties and risks of AI. #ECER2025 #EduSci blog.eera-ecer.de/nlp-tools-for-education-research/

#ECER2025 Belgrade Keynotes will be livestreamed on Wednesday, 10 September and Thursday, 11 September 11:00 – 12:00 (CEST). Click here for info on the speakers and their keynotes and the links to the livestreams https://eera-ecer.de/conferences/ecer-2025-belgrade/keynote-speakers

New on our blog: How do educational researchers and students do their daily work in times of social and politican upheaval? #ECER2025 #EduSci https://blog.eera-ecer.de/researching-education-in-troubled-times/

𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴 𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘃𝗲: "Being part of a supportive ECR community helped us realise that through collaboration, we can better negotiate the unknown future, whether this relates to our PhD journeys, or sustainability issues generally."

New on our blog: A preview of @benpatrickwill.bsky.social ECER 2025 Keynote, asking if educational genomics should play a role in educational policy or practice #ECER2025 #EduSci https://blog.eera-ecer.de/should-genetics-play-a-role-in-education/

𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴: AI tools are changing how researchers approach data analysis, but how much should we trust automation in shaping scientific decisions? #ECER2025 #EduSci http://blog.eera-ecer.de/nlp-tools-for-education-research/

𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴: In the run up to ECER, Dr Philippe Gabriel looks forward to conversations in Belgrade with those who see education as a force for transformation #ECER2025 #EduSci https://blog.eera-ecer.de/researching-education-in-troubled-times/

𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴:When canonical texts offer few mirrors, how do Black Caribbean boys make meaning in English Literature? Our latest post explores their counter-narratives. #ECER2025 #EduSci https://blog.eera-ecer.de/co-creating-narratives-with-black-caribbean-boys/

New on our blog: A preview of @benpatrickwill.bsky.social ECER 2025 Keynote on the scientific claims of educational genomics proponents, and the methods and technologies underpinning this research #ECER2025 #EduSci https://blog.eera-ecer.de/should-genetics-play-a-role-in-education/

𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴: Ahead of ECER 2025, Dr Philippe Gabriel reflects on the work of an educational researcher in these turbulent times #ECER2025 #EduSci https://blog.eera-ecer.de/researching-education-in-troubled-times/

A big thank you to the colleagues at the German Education Server at DIPF for compiling this dossier on “Educational Research in Serbia. Information on professional societies and associations, research institutes, research history, topics and trends, journals, and more: https://tinyurl.com/32cxayja

𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴 𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘃𝗲: At least 10% of people who experience traumatic events have serious mental health problems. A project by the UERA and EERA was launched to support Ukrainian first-year students #EERA_NW10 #EERA_UERA #EduSci https://blog.eera-ecer.de/first-year-students-in-ukraine/

New on our blog: A preview of @benpatrickwill.bsky.socialECER 2025 Keynote: Educational genomics is a fast-growing area of research, but should policy or practice be based on an individual's DNA? #ECER2025 #EduSci https://blog.eera-ecer.de/should-genetics-play-a-role-in-education/

𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗴 𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘃𝗲: A guest post by the authors of the Nov 2022 EERJ Special Issue. The framework of social topology allows for empirically investigating how space and time are socially constructed. #EERAblog https://blog.eera-ecer.de/eerj-special-issue-researching-space-and-time-making-in-education/

🚨 Submit abstracts by 1st September! 📣 #SpecialIssue of Educational Review on Educators’ Responsible Well-Being as Social Justice. Learn more: bit.ly/EdWellCFP @tandfresearch.bsky.social @ecer-eera.bsky.social @aeraedresearch.bsky.social #EdChat #CfP #EduChat

𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴 𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘃𝗲: We asked Daniela Clara Moraru to share her personal experience of participating in her first EERA summer school in Porto #EdResearch #PhD #EduSci #EERAblog https://blog.eera-ecer.de/eeras-summer-school-in-porto/

𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴 𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘃𝗲: Reflections from Irish teachers on calculated grading during the COVID-19 pandemic provide insight into student assessment without final exams. #EERA_NW9 @esai_irl #EduSci

𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴 𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘃𝗲: Dr Maja Wenderlich explores how mindfulness can be used to reduce math anxiety by shifting focus to the present moment. #EERA_NW24 #EduSci https://blog.eera-ecer.de/math-meditation-mindfulness/

New on our blog: EU Universities of Applied Sciences are facing increasing challenges - this research project investigates how three UAS are respondin #EERA_DGfE #EduSci