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Stephen Downes

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This is a pretty densely written post, but the gist is that the Community of Associate Deans of Education Research (cADRE) "would like to argue for a radical agenda for inclusive and compassionate education research that informs educational policy and practice. This would challenge the empty rhetoric of 'excellence' that we hear so much about in universities." Catherine Manathunga also argues that education research in Australia should "shift the focus on the exchange value of education research or education research as a commodity on sale to the knowledge economy to Education research's use value." Tom Worthington offers a commentary, saying " An agenda for inclusive and compassionate education research doesn't have to be this radical." Maybe it doesn't have to be, but maybe it would be better if it were?

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