Glenn C. Savage in The Conversation September 21, 2001

. . . we should invest energy and resources to inspire local networks of evidence creation and knowledge sharing. This organic and bottom-up approach puts faith in the profession to experiment, solve problems and collaborate to create solutions in context.

This is not an argument against experts and expertise but is a call for re-framing how we understand these terms.

Australia has fallen into a pattern where the experts and expertise that shape reforms are no longer in schools. This needs to be urgently re-balanced.

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