I want to share here the deep concern I have for the role of educational researchers and teachers in this burgeoning post-truth and fake news world. Educators know that policy and practice should be informed by more than one kind of evidence. Educational research is not like medical research where if a drug is found …

Around the world today school systems in developed countries tend to produce a ‘one size fits all’ type of education. This mass schooling usually involves standardised testing, a national curriculum and increased measurement and accountability of teaching and teachers. However there is much that mainstream, or mass-produced schooling can learn from alternative approaches used in …