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Seven reasons to question the hegemony of visible learning

Seven reasons to question the hegemony of visible learning
Seven reasons to question the hegemony of visible learning
The publication of John Hattie’s Visible Learning: A synthesis of over 800 meta-analyses relating to achievement in 2009 has led to the wide spread adoption of the Visible Learning program around the world. Critique of this program has been less widespread, especially in English, and has tended to centre on the mechanisms of meta-analysis. We consider what Visible Learning puts to work in relation to cultural politics and find it closely aligned with agendas of neoliberalism, sexism and ableism that operate to perform exclusion in schools and to de-professionalise teachers in feminised work. We argue that the metaphor of Visible Learning itself requires much more careful attention.
0159-6306
32-44
McKnight, Lucinda
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Whitburn, Ben
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McKnight, Lucinda
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Whitburn, Ben
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McKnight, Lucinda and Whitburn, Ben (2018) Seven reasons to question the hegemony of visible learning. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 41 (1), 32-44. (doi:10.1080/01596306.2018.1480474).

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The publication of John Hattie’s Visible Learning: A synthesis of over 800 meta-analyses relating to achievement in 2009 has led to the wide spread adoption of the Visible Learning program around the world. Critique of this program has been less widespread, especially in English, and has tended to centre on the mechanisms of meta-analysis. We consider what Visible Learning puts to work in relation to cultural politics and find it closely aligned with agendas of neoliberalism, sexism and ableism that operate to perform exclusion in schools and to de-professionalise teachers in feminised work. We argue that the metaphor of Visible Learning itself requires much more careful attention.

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Accepted/In Press date: 31 May 2018
Published date: 31 May 2018

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Local EPrints ID: 470996
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/470996
ISSN: 0159-6306
PURE UUID: 594aec28-b24c-4b31-8d64-6c966cd004c1
ORCID for Ben Whitburn: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-3137-2803

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Author: Lucinda McKnight
Author: Ben Whitburn ORCID iD

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