Questioning Systems of Deformative Assessment
I argue that state maintained schools within England be brave, reject GCSE’s and their deformative effect upon learning and adopt the IB MYC as a summative assessment framework which provides […]
Category Archives: Applied Critical Realism
Critical Realism and its potential application to educational research.
David Corson’s analysis and subsequent rejection of Popper and Dewey’s philosophy of education led to his conclusion that Bhaskar’s critical realism (CR) offered a more suitable philosophical perspective for the […]
The Open System of the Social World and its Stratified Reality
Following the separation of the ontological and epistemological CR goes on to characterize the world, for the most part, as an open system from which we can see how the […]
An outline of “Basic” Critical Realism for Educational Research
what is created is always a new synthesis of the new and old, of the manifest and un-manifest, of the ephemeral and the eternal. But what is created also transcends, […]
Collaborative Group Learning 