Grounding the democratic imagination: Developing the relationship between research and policy in education (Inaugural Professorial Lecture) - Softcover

Saunders, Lesley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0854737057 ISBN 13: 9780854737055

Publisher: Institute of Education, 2004

Synopsis

An Inaugural Professorial Lecture How can research – the scholarly pursuit of ‘truth’ – have a more responsive relationship with political decision-making in education? The ‘evidence-based education’ agenda represents a rationalist ideal, in which research provides reliable evidence on which to base public policy. But this is hard to realise, because of: the nature of knowledge and knowledge creation; the nature of decision-making in policy and political arenas; the difference in assumptions, cultures and priorities between research and policy. In this lecture Lesley Saunders highlights some ways forward, and illustrates these with examples of what the General Teaching Council is working to accomplish. She concludes with a personal meditation on the role of creativity and the imagination, and makes an appeal for research to be the ‘rich ground in which a democratic vision of education is rooted and can flourish’.

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About the Author

Lesley Saunders is a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Education, University of London.

Edition details

• Publisher: Institute of Education
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0854737057
• ISBN 13: 9780854737055
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 38