Why we should take a global view of education research

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Kristy Turner spotlights unconscious bias in education research and encourages everyone to look beyond the obvious sources

Education research is biased towards the West, and many of the researchers are White men. That doesn’t mean that education research isn’t happening elsewhere, nor that only White men do it. When she realised this recently, chemistry teacher fellow Kristy Turner started to look for other sources of quality education research. In this article, she encourages teachers to look beyond the obvious sources.

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