S1:E7 - Why "What Works" Won't Work and Why "What Works" May Hurt

What do fields like medicine, physics, agriculture, and education have in common? In this episode of Re:Teaching, I’ll unpack the criticisms and limits of “what works” in what we call evidence-based educational research and practice and try to understand why, in the words of Dutch researcher Gert Biesta, “the dynamics of education are fundamentally different from the dynamics, of, say, potato growing or chemistry”. This article can also be found on our Medium page.

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