Transcript Doing educational research that matters

Doing research
that matters
How research can influence
policy and practice
Tristram Hooley
...if I were asked to name the
most needed of all reforms in
the spirit of education, I
should say: 'Cease conceiving of
education as mere preparation
for later life, and make it the
full meaning of the present
life.’
John Dewey (1893)
I said to myself Malala, you
must be brave. You must not be
afraid of anyone. You are only
trying to get an education. You
are not committing a crime.
Malala Yousafzai (2013)
However this isn’t the whole
story…
A maths textbook
How much it costs to care for the ‘hereditarily unfit’ in
terms of a ‘normal’ worker’s annual salary?
So education can open your eyes
or mislead you.
We need contestation, critique
and challenge.
But not everything is just
opinion…
Education endowment
foundation
So where does this leave us?
A role for researchers
Connecting to
Describing evidence
Listening
Linking to
the big
picture
Publicising and agitating
Scrutinising
Offering
solutions
Providing
vision
Education practice
Researchers
Public opinion
Media
Change actors in education
policy
Education policy
Government
Knowledge
brokers
Civil society
Employers
Schools
organisations
Professional
associations
Individuals in the system
Trade unions
Etc.
Example: Economic benefits
• Timely
• Relevant
• Produced through
close working with
Careers England
• Passed it to
MPs/politicians
• Continued to make use
of it after it was
published.
Roles for educators
•
•
•
•
•
Read research
Be an informed skeptic
Be a citizen as well as a teacher
Friend a researcher
Participate and partner in
research
• Become a researcher practitioner
• Write something!
References
•
•
•
•
•
Dewey, J. (1983). Self-realization as the moral ideal. The
Philosophical Review, 2.
Education Endowment Foundation Teaching and Learning Toolkit
https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/evidence/teachinglearning-toolkit
Gatsby Charitable Foundation. (2014). Good Career Guidance.
London: Gatsby Charitable Foundation.
Hooley, T. and Dodd, V. (2015). The Economic Benefits of Career
Guidance. Careers England.
Reed, S. (2013). Propaganda in the schoolroom. Available from
http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/european/2013/06/propaganda
-in-the-schoolroom.html (Accessed 29th February 2016).
About me
Tristram Hooley
Professor of Career Education
University of Derby
www.derby.ac.uk/icegs
[email protected]
@pigironjoe
https://adventuresincareerdevelopme
nt.wordpress.com/