To make sure that the list wouldn’t be too limited or coloured by his own personal preferences, he also did some crowdsourcing on Twitter and Facebook. The question intrigued Paul and he started to ponder it. That’s how it usually goes, both in research and in ‘real life’: every now and again a giant rises and then we, ordinary mortals, build on top of their brilliance.Ī while back, Sanna Järvelä, Paul’s colleague-professor at the University of Oulu (Finland) asked him if he could provide a list with ten core articles from educational and cognitive psychology that all members of their research group should be familiar with. What he meant is that research and our knowledge progresses by building on earlier discoveries by others. In 1675, Isaac Newton wrote a letter to colleague and competitor Robert Hooke in which he wrote: “If I have seen further, it is by standing of the shoulders of giants.” In the coming months we’ll choose a few of the chapters and summarise them in our blog here. The book, aimed at (future) primary school teachers, will also be available via open access starting January 12 th. Kirschner, Luce Claessens, and Steven Raaijmakers have just written a book (in Dutch), bringing these absolute core pieces together and showing how teachers can use them to their own and their learners’ benefit. Question: What educational research is absolutely critical for educators to know of and use in their teaching? Paul A.

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