1st Edition
Evidence-Informed Wisdom Making Better Decisions in Education
Part 1: The Key Ingredients of Evidence-Informed Wisdom
Introduction: Necessary but not sufficient (or what makes evidence-informed wisdom)
1. Blind villagers meet an elephant for the first time (or why research is important)
2. Dynamic memories and smashing cars (or why your experience is essential)
3. Do parachutes make jumping out of a plane safer? (or why your context is king)
Intermission: A Model for Change
Part 2: The Psychology of Changing Minds: Ours and Other People's
4. This is a lighthouse and Santa isn’t real (or why it is hard to change our minds, but important that we sometimes do)
5. The smoking ban and too much jam (or how to help others develop their evidence-informed wisdom)
6. The cobra effect (or traps to avoid along the way)
Epilogue: Chesterton’s fence (or why not all change is good)
Biography
Bradley Busch is a Chartered Psychologist and director of InnerDrive. He is one of the leading experts on how psychological research can best help teachers and students improve how they think, learn and perform. His main area of focus is on cognitive science and self-regulation.
Edward Watson is the founder of InnerDrive. He has worked with thousands of educators from all over the world, helping them become more evidence-informed. He is an Oxford University graduate who previously served seven years in the army. His main area of focus is on leadership and resilience.
Matthew Shaw is a Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow at The British Psychological Society. As well as working with hundreds of schools, he regularly consults with professional footballers and Team GB Olympians on how to perform under pressure and is particularly interested in the impact of cognitive biases on decision making.
