Research chief calls on education Twitterati to show ‘more respect’
People need to show each other more respect when discussing education on Twitter, the boss of the government-sponsored research fund has said.
Sir Kevan Collins, the chief executive of the Education Endowment Foundation, said the education community needed to stop debating in an “awful, polarised, adversarial way”.
Speaking at a debate last week on the use of evidence-informed practice in the classroom, he was asked a question about debate on Twitter by adherents of “progressive” and “traditional” educational philosophies.
Sir Kevan Collins said: “I would say one thing about… the Twitterati and all that lot.
“I think it’s great that people are having this [debate], but I think we need compassion, we need more respect amongst each other and we need to honour collaboration.
“What we must reject is not ideas, but we must reject this idea that we have to only have debates in education in this awful, polarised, adversarial way.”
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