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It has always been interesting to me that so few teachers I know actually read education research. We all know many of the reasons why that is so. As teachers, we are incredibly busy, right or wrong we think we know everything, and much of what is written by education researchers is so painful to read that even if there were some some nuggets of helpful wisdom, we ignore the whole field out of self-preservation. FacultyShack itself was created as an effort to react to that situation and to share knowledge in a more conversational way, but there are (some) good things being written in education research journals. For awhile we had been talking about trying to recruit researchers to write short, jargon-free essays about pieces of research they were doing. Well, as is the case on the net these days, someone beat us to it, and we are big enough to admit that they are doing it as well as we could and IT IS ALL ON VIDEO!
The Voice is a video ed-journal based out of Columbia Teachers (shouldn't that have an apostrophe?) that has researchers give short (around three minute) summaries of articles they have submitted to Teachers College Record. They have entries from some of the biggest names in education research and some people you most likely have never heard of. The viewer will prompt you to watch many in succession, but we will periodically highlight one or two that we think are particularly interesting. This week Adam Howard a professor from Colby College describes a provocative piece on students' views on privilege. Let us know what you think and suggest other clips that you find useful. Here is a link to The Voice. We are working on embedding the player.
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