ABSTRACT
Current educational research is too narrowly based and does not examine more fundamental issues. Any curriculum is a subjective choice with no objective basis to it. The obsession with a fact-based curriculum is damaging for young people. Too often arguments to support current practice are based on opinion not facts – an interesting situation given the fact-based espousal of such writers. The chapter develops a rigorous epistemology to support the evidence contained therein. It also accepts the challenge to have ‘skin in the game’ – to practice what is preached. This links to the need for a coherent link from scientific evidence to social technology. However, as Einstein has been quoted, ‘Not everything that can be counted, counts. And not everything that counts can be counted’.
