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Don't be put off reading the article by the rather misleading headline. It would reflect the article more accurately if it said 'education should answer to the same standards as medicine'. https://twitter.com/EducationDeans/status/1324124606622564363
That said, every time this medicine x education contrast is brought up, there's scope for multiplying misconceptions about BOTH areas of research and practice.
We saw it with David Hargreaves TTA lecture in 1996
https://eppi.ioe.ac.uk/cms/Portals/0/PDF%20reviews%20and%20summaries/TTA%20Hargreaves%20lecture.pdf
We saw it with David Hargreaves TTA lecture in 1996
https://eppi.ioe.ac.uk/cms/Portals/0/PDF%20reviews%20and%20summaries/TTA%20Hargreaves%20lecture.pdf
We've seen it with some of the noisy (more heat, less light) fights over RCTs - which CAN be held up as some kind of gold standard, but are inappropriate for most of the research and development pathway connecting bench and bedside or lab and learning place.
And I think it's rarely helpful to compare education with the development of drug-based therapies or surgical procedures. The R&D paradigms, ways of formulating problems and responses etc in areas like public health are closer to what we face in education.
I'm all for increasing the funding for R&D that generates reliable, actionable knowledge for the improvement of local educational practice. The underfunding of educational research in Australia has reached a crisis point.
But I'm not convinced that the best strategy for winning the levels of funding enjoyed by medical research is by emulating a specific approach to knowledge-making ...
.. especially when that approach represents only a small part of how knowledge is made and used in medicine & health. BUT do read the article!
