Pandemic, protests, recovery, opportunities: Repositioning of educational research, teaching and learning. BERA-Research Intelligence. Issue 151. Spring/Summer 2022.

This second decade of the 21st century continues to bring extraordinary uncertainty and challenge. In education, researchers, teachers and students were forced to adapt to digital methods as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. In the midst of this, the huge waves of Black Lives Matter anti-racism protests across the world demanded the reframing of education and curriculum content, challenging educational institutions in their thinking and (in)action over the years in advancing inclusive practice for race equity in teaching and learning. The articles in the special section of RI 151 respond to the inter-relatedness of the Covid-19 crisis and the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, and by doing so, provide an important return to themes of inquiry shared in RI 142 on ‘Decolonising the Curriculum: Transnational Perspectives’ with new questions. • What opportunities in repositioning research to advance approaches in teaching and learning have emerged from this exceptional period of time? • How has educational research taken a lead in generating new knowledge for shaping our adaptations in the recovery of teaching and learning?