ResearchED

ResearchED is a teacher-led organisation established in 2013 by Tom Bennett that aims to make teachers research literate and pseudo-science proof.[1] It holds teacher conferences throughout the UK and internationally. Speakers have included Daniel T. Willingham,[2] Daisy Christodoulou,[3] Nick Gibb,[4] Mark Lehain,[5] Sam Freedman,[6] Andrew Sabisky[7] and Daniel Muijs.[8]

ResearchED
Formation2013
PurposeTo bridge the gap between research and practice in education
Official language
English
Directors
WebsiteResearchED

Its official publication is the quarterly journal ResearchED, published in partnership with John Catt Educational and founded in 2018. Contributors to the first issue included Daisy Christodoulou, John Sweller and Daniel T. Willingham, who also featured on its front cover.[9][10][11]

Origins

ResearchED was founded by Tom Bennett in 2013.[12] According to its website, the organization came about after a discussion between Bennett, Sam Freedman (previously advisor to the Secretary of State for Education and later director of research and impact at Teach First), and science writer Ben Goldacre.[13] It grew out of Bennett's frustration that teachers "were not leaving their initial training familiar with the best and latest research on how to teach, the way people learn, remember, focus and behave".[14]

Conferences

ResearchED's conferences have grown over time to more than 1,000 participants by 2017.[15]

Reception

Vince Ulam argues that ResearchED is not really a grassroots movement, but is rather based on astroturfing and is an "outrider" for Michael Gove's education reforms.[16]

Concerns were raised prior to a ResearchED conference in Canada in 2017 about "platforming consultants... whose independent research has been held to scrutiny for encouraging scientific racism".[17]

Minister of State for Schools Nick Gibb praised the organisation, calling it "a grassroots, teacher-led revolt against the old order in education".[15]

In June 2020 the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation (OSSTF) severed ties with ResearchED, describing it as a "divisive and populist organization" with values that did not align with those of the OSSTF.[17]

References
  1. "About ResearchED". ResearchED. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
  2. "Daniel Willingham – researchED". Retrieved 2 September 2020.
  3. "Daisy Christodoulou – researchED".
  4. "Nick Gibb – researchED".
  5. "Mark Lehain – researchED".
  6. "Sam Freedman – researchED".
  7. "Andrew Sabisky – researchED". Retrieved 2 September 2020.
  8. "Daniel Muijs – researchED". Retrieved 2 September 2020.
  9. Education (DfE), Department for. "School Standards Minister at ResearchED". FE News. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
  10. "Magazine Launch – researchED". Retrieved 20 November 2019.
  11. "The researchED series: Evidence-informed guides for teachers". John Catt Bookshop. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
  12. "About researchED". ResearchED. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
  13. "Our Story – researchED". Archived from the original on 2016-09-20. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
  14. Rycroft-Smith, Lucy; Dutaut, Jean-Louis (2017). Flip the system UK : a teachers' manifesto (1st ed.). London. p. 8. ISBN 1138214809.
  15. Robertson, Alix (9 September 2017). "Minister slams academics who won't engage with researchED". Schools Week. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
  16. Watson, Steven (24 July 2020). "New Right 2.0: Teacher populism on social media in England". British Educational Research Journal. doi:10.1002/berj.3664.
  17. Mitchell, Jamie; Farhadi, Beyhan. "RESISTING RESEARCH-ED". AAG CGE-SG. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
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