The Evidential Basis of "Evidence-Based Education"

"Evidence-based education" (EBE) is a catchline for policy makers and school leaders alike, with its advocates promoting their work as being "rigorous" and "scientific". The chapters in this book, written by leading educators and philosophers, place this approach in context and challenge whether the arguments it leads to live up to the hype.

EBE advocates promote particular, restricted approaches to determining policy and practice in schools, with only some forms of evidence accepted as legi...