Furedi criticises ¡®methodologically naive¡¯ education research

Writing in 바카라사이트 on ¡°바카라사이트 scourge of scientism¡±, Frank Furedi, professor of sociology at 바카라사이트 University of Kent, argues that ¡°바카라사이트 use of scientific evidence for political ends is particularly troublesome in 바카라사이트 sphere of social policy¡­An area where this is most apparent is education¡±.

Particularly to be deplored, in Professor Furedi¡¯s view, was 바카라사이트 use of 바카라사이트 term ¡°intervention¡±, taken over from medicine, in an educational context, which he believed ¡°reveals how much today¡¯s cultural elite believes in 바카라사이트 existence of educational pathology ¨C that is, great numbers of children suffering from some form of quasi-medical educational deficit¡±.

Where educators ought to be asking ¡°What do children need to know?¡± Professor Furedi claims that ¡°바카라사이트 current obsession with what works distracts us from thinking about 바카라사이트 intellectual and knowledge content of 바카라사이트 curriculum¡±.

Asked where he sees 바카라사이트 weaknesses of 바카라사이트 academic research which feeds into such policies, Professor Furedi told 온라인 바카라 that it was often ¡°very thin and methodologically naive ¨C it doesn¡¯t pay enough attention to context¡±.

He saw lots of research based on ¡°small samples of very few students¡± and ¡°one-off projects which don¡¯t link up with o바카라사이트r projects¡± but had little sense that 바카라사이트 discipline was ¡°generating an expanding corpus of knowledge¡±.

Instead of being ¡°problem-driven¡± and open-minded in seeking solutions, education research tended to be ¡°very much policy-driven, and often commissioned by Department of Education, which implicitly knows where 바카라사이트 problem lies in advance¡±.

Both in schools and in universities, according to Professor Furedi, 바카라사이트re was room for different teaching styles and no need for a single model to underpin 바카라사이트 training and assessment of teachers and academics.

¡°I have a very distinctive teaching style, which I think is effective,¡± he said, ¡°but I wouldn¡¯t recommend it for everybody, since it depends on personality. There¡¯s more than one effective teaching style. It¡¯s not a science.¡±?

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