Australia Association for Research in Education
evidence-based policy
Put professional judgement of teachers first or we’ll never get the systemic education improvements we all want. Let’s talk about it
In this blog I’d like to bring together three different lines of educational analysis to show how our …
QandA:‘what works’ in ed with Bob Lingard, Jessica Gerrard, Adrian Piccoli, Rob Randall,Glenn Savage (chair)
See the full video here Evidence, expertise and influence are increasingly contested in the making of Australian schooling policy. More than ever, policy makers, researchers and practitioners are being asked to defend the evidence they use, justify why the voices of some experts are given preference over others, and be critically aware of the networks …
Here’s what is going wrong with ‘evidence-based’ policies and practices in schools in Australia
An academic‘s job is, quite often, to name what others might not see. Scholars of school reform in …