How research paywalls keep today's research from becoming best practice
Dominant logic often isolates higher learning research from the teachers who need to apply it. There are pay walls that keep average everyday teachers like me from nosing around in matters reserved for ivory towers. It sort of ticks me off sometimes. Why can't ivory tower people "adopt" classroom practitioners (like me and many others) who really "get into" reading research and applying it in our classroom so we can actually access the material we need to read? You would think that people would want "real" teachers to read the research on learning and teaching. Instead we often get insulted for not knowing it or using it when we don't have access in the first place. No entry allowed Today I was perusing around research around what makes learning meaningful to students and came across this article " Phases of Meaningful Learning " but have to be a "member" or pay a one time $25 to access the article. Well it may just b...