ResearchED is a teacher-led organisation established in 2013 by
Tom Bennett that aims to make teachers research literate and
pseudo-science proof.
It holds teacher conferences throughout the UK and internationally. Speakers have included
Daniel T. Willingham,
Daisy Christodoulou,
Nick Gibb.,
John Sweller,
John Hattie,
Katharine Birbalsingh,
Natalie Wexler, and
Dylan Wiliam.
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.
Origins
ResearchED was founded by Tom Bennett in 2013. According to its website, the organization came about after a discussion between Bennett, Sam Freedman, and science writer
Ben Goldacre. 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".
Conferences
ResearchED's conferences have grown over time to more than 1,000 participants by 2017.
Reception
In a 2020 article published by the ''British Educational Research Journal'', academic Steven Watson accused ResearchED of
astroturfing
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and as an 'outrider for
ichaelGove's education reforms'.
Daniel T. Willingham, a guest speaker at a ResearchED conference, refers to ResearchED as an "organization by and for practitioners, meant to bring education research to the public via low-cost conferences throughout the world, and now a magazine",
The UK
Minister of State for Schools,
Nick Gibb, praised the organisation, calling it "a grassroots, teacher-led revolt against the old order in education".
References
External links
ResearchED main pageResearchED youtube
See also
* Evidence-based education
2013 establishments in the United Kingdom
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