Mind Lab - Week 4 - Leadership - Research Informed Leadership

The importance of research-informed teaching as opposed to the sole use of  'Old habits and Hearsay'.

Educational Researchers
Ann Brown - educational psychologist
Jerome Bruner - Americal psychologist
Seymour Papert - mathematician, computer scientist, educator
Jean Piaget - Swiss psychologist - child development Piaget's theory of cognitive development
John Dewey - American philosopher, psychologist, educational reformer
Linda Darling-Hammond - professor of education

Lev Vygotsky - Soviet psychologist - Social development theory. Vygotsky's theory is one of the foundations of constructivism. It asserts three major themes regarding social interaction, the more knowledgeable other, and the zone of proximal development.

Knowledge is adaptive, as Benseman (2013) states "what is self-evident today is tomorrow’s fallacy or tale of ridicule" (p. 15). In sum, the quality of Research-informed teaching (RIT) evidence is ensured by accessing peer-reviewed literature "Although the research evidence is rarely clear-cut or irrefutable, it does provide a sturdier platform to base our teaching than the alternatives of old habits and hearsay” (p. 15).

Collaborative Task What does the Dr Fox lecture tell us about how we should respond to academic arguments from others, even the most persuasive? Fake News, they are all full of bollocks shout them down. Is it easier or harder to be critical in 2018? Harder because of the proliferation of fake news, easier to look stuff up but hard to find out the agenda of stuff. How do you make sure, as a leader, are like Galileo and not like Sizi? You need to be open to suggestions. Be experimental and use actual evidence.



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