I am hearing a bit about John Hattie, and Visible Learning. I don’t have an opinion about his model yet. The main reason I share this is for the interview with Pasi Sahlberg.
This author has been scathing of Hattie’s work. However, he doesn’t exactly inform an uninformed reader of the details of that work. This is my next goal – to learn more about his work.
Hattie’s research is rubbish.
For him, the beauty of it being rubbish is that it allows him to say it says whatever he likes.
In his latest trick he has produced a new book called The Politics of Distraction: What doesn’t work ineducation.
Pearson and Hattie have begun a huge sales promotion. A call to Nine-to-Noon and there he was being interviewed.
An academic who is to education what an oil spill is to the environment.
The media can’t believe that anyone so renowned can be pulling an education trick. That is his protection and his credibility.
And the more I say things like that, or anyone, the less credible I, or they, sound.
This time he mixes things up, completely contradicting some positions taken earlier, taking up positions on some new things, but underneath the same hard-line, narrow, and top-down educationist he always has been.
And, of course…
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