ResearchED
{{short description|International nonprofit academic organization}}
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ResearchED is a teacher-led organisation established in 2013 by Tom Bennett that aims to make teachers research literate and pseudo-science proof.{{cite web |title=About ResearchED |url=https://researched.org.uk/about/ |website=ResearchED |accessdate=2 September 2020}} It holds teacher conferences throughout the UK and internationally. Speakers have included Daniel T. Willingham,{{cite web |title=Daniel Willingham – researchED |date=20 April 2020 |url=https://researched.org.uk/sessions/daniel-willingham/ |accessdate=2 September 2020}} Daisy Christodoulou,{{cite web |title=Daisy Christodoulou – researchED |url=https://researched.org.uk/sessions/daisy-christodoulou-2/}} Nick Gibb.,{{cite web |title=Nick Gibb – researchED |url=https://researched.org.uk/sessions/nick-gibb/}} John Sweller, John Hattie, Katharine Birbalsingh, Natalie Wexler, and Dylan Wiliam.{{cite web|url=https://researched.org.uk/category/past-events/|title=Past events, ResearchED}}
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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fenews.co.uk/press-releases/19509-speech-school-standards-minister-at-researched|title=School Standards Minister at ResearchED|last=Education (DfE)|first=Department for|date=10 September 2018|website=FE News|language=en-gb|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=20 November 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://researched.org.uk/pr/magazine-launch/|title=Magazine Launch – researchED|last=|first=|date=|website=|language=en-GB|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=20 November 2019}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.johncattbookshop.com/books/the-researched-series|title=The researchED series: Evidence-informed guides for teachers|last=|first=|date=|website=John Catt Bookshop|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=20 November 2019}}
Origins
ResearchED was founded by Tom Bennett in 2013.{{cite news |title=About researchED |url=https://researched.org.uk/about/about-researched/ |access-date=24 January 2021 |work=ResearchED}} According to its website, the organization came about after a discussion between Bennett, Sam Freedman, and science writer Ben Goldacre.{{cite web |title=Our Story – researchED |url=https://researched.org.uk/about/our-story/ |accessdate=2 September 2020 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160920013316/https://researched.org.uk/about/our-story/|archivedate=2016-09-20}} 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".{{cite book |last1=Rycroft-Smith |first1=Lucy |last2=Dutaut |first2=Jean-Louis |title=Flip the system UK : a teachers' manifesto |date=2017 |location=London |isbn=978-1138214804 |page=8 |edition=1st}}
Conferences
ResearchED's conferences have grown over time to more than 1,000 participants by 2017.{{cite news |last1=Robertson |first1=Alix |title=Minister slams academics who won't engage with researchED |url=https://schoolsweek.co.uk/minister-slams-academics-who-wont-engage-with-researched/ |access-date=24 January 2021 |work=Schools Week |date=9 September 2017}}
Reception
In a 2020 article published by the British Educational Research Journal, academic Steven Watson accused ResearchED of astroturfing and as an 'outrider for [Michael] Gove's education reforms'.{{cite journal |last1=Watson |first1=Steven |title=New Right 2.0: Teacher populism on social media in England |url=https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstreams/5cb6007a-97cd-46e5-aaef-b3b4553c32ce/download |journal=British Educational Research Journal |doi=10.1002/berj.3664 |date=24 July 2020|volume=47 |issue=2 |pages=299–315 |doi-access=free }}
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",{{cite web|url=https://www.aft.org/ae/summer2019/willingham|title=Ask the Cognitive Scientist: Should Teachers Know the Basic Science of How Children Learn?|year=2019|author=Daniel T. Willinghaman}}
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
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External links
- [https://researched.org.uk ResearchED main page]
- [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3uPEgDH3pAhQe06533Zebw ResearchED youtube]