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Critical Perspectives on Teaching, Learning and Leadership Enhancing Educational Outcomes Foreword by Anthony Seldon

Critical Perspectives on Teaching, Learning and Leadership

Mathew A. White Faye McCallum •

Editors

Critical Perspectives on Teaching, Learning and Leadership Enhancing Educational Outcomes

Foreword by Anthony Seldon

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Editors Mathew A. White University of Adelaide Adelaide, SA, Australia

Faye McCallum University of Adelaide Adelaide, SA, Australia

ISBN 978-981-15-6666-0 ISBN 978-981-15-6667-7 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6667-7

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Foreword

I’m very pleased to be writing a foreword to this important book edited by Mathew White and Faye McCallum, the fruit of extensive research by them and their talented cohort of writers at the University of Adelaide’s Enhancing Educational Outcomes research group. Unlike medicine, education has not benefitted from the same level of high-powered and intensive research. We cannot conceive of medicine today without thinking of how research has completely transformed the experience and outcomes. But in education, the quality of research worldwide has often been really quite poor. Governments thus embark on a series of initiatives, primarily for political reasons, or for capricious ones, sometimes citing research randomly and without context or rigour, as the justification for what they have already decided to do. The arrival of this book is thus to be welcomed, because it has much value to offer, not just Australia, but educators and governments worldwide. It will help ground education policy worldwide on r