The coming crisis in education research … and what we might do about it (Sally Power)
Meet The Education ResearcherShow Notes
Academic research is becoming increasingly peripheral to education policy-makers and practitioners.
Prof. Sally Power (Cardiff University) talks about the current shortcomings of our work, and how education research might be reinvigorated through a new ‘politics of method’.
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