BRIDGES

Philosophy, Methodology and Educational Research

Herausgeber: Bridges, David; Smith, Richard D

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Produktbeschreibung

Educational policy-makers are increasingly employing the rhetoric of research-based or evidence-based policy and practice, thus insisting on a particularly narrow definition of educational research. At the same time, educational researchers themselves are drawing on an increasingly wide variety of intellectual resources for their research methods and methodologies - methods and methodologies derived from the social sciences, broadly conceived, but also from the humanities and the creative arts. This collection brings together twenty-two contributions that examine a wide variety of issues raised in this setting: about the nature of educational research and its claims on our attention; about the relationship between research and educational practice; about issues of generalisability and claims to truth; about the supposed conflict between qualitative and quantitative research methodologies; about the place of philosophy itself in educational research; and about the teaching of research methods and methodology. Written by a distinguished international group of philosophers of education, it represents an authoritative contribution to the literature and will be a key point of reference both for those examining these issues at a policy level and for those teaching and studying educational research methods and methodologies in university departments, as well as for students of philosophy of education. Cover image: St John Reconsiders Modern Epistemology (c) James B. Janknegt Cover design by Design Deluxe

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Turner Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9781405145138
• ISBN-10: 1405145137
• Artikelnr.: 22722807

Autorenporträt

David Bridges is currently Executive Director of the Association of Universities of the Eastern Region and a Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Applied Research in Education, University of East Anglia. Richard Smith is Professor of Education at Durham University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: David Bridges and Richard Smith.

2. The Myth of 'Scientific Method' in ContemporaryEducational Research: Darrell Rowbottom and Sarah Aiston.

3. As if by Machinery: the Levelling of Educational Research:Richard Smith.

4. 'A demented form of the familiar': Postmodernismand Educational Research: Maggie MacLure.

5. The Disciplines and Discipline of Educational Research: DavidBridges.

6. Consistency, Understanding and Truth in Educational Research:Andrew Davis.

7. No Harm Done: The Implications for Educational Research ofthe Rejection of Truth: Stefan Ramaekers.

8. The Quantitative-Qualitative Distinction and the NullHypothesis Significance Testing Procedure: Nimal Ratnesar and JimMackenzie.

9. A View from Somewhere: Explaining the Paradigms ofEducational Research: Hanan Alexander.

10. Philosophy, Methodology and Action Research: WilfredCarr.

11. Educational Research as a Form of Democratic Rationality:John Elliott.

12. Philosophical Research and Educational Action Research:Marianna Papastephanou.

13. Why Generalisability is not Generalisable: Lynn Fendler.

14. On Generalising from Single Case Studies: EpistemologicalReflections: Colin W. Evers and Echo H. Wu.

15. Epistemological Issues in Phenomenological Research: HowAuthoritative are People's Accounts of their ownPerceptions?: Bas Levering.

16. Reasons and Causes in Educational Research: OvercomingDichotomies and Other Conceptual Confusions: Paul Smeyers.

17. Philosophy's Contribution to Social Science Researchon Education: Martin Hammersley.

18. US Graduate Study in Education Research: From Methodology toPotential Totalization: Lynda Stone.

19. Shovelling Smoke? The Experience of Being a Philosopher on aResearch Training Programme: Judith Suissa.

20. Induction into Educational Research Networks: The Striatedand the Smooth: Naomi Hodgson and Paul Standish.

21. The Contested Nature of Empirical Educational Research (andWhy Philosophy of Education Offers Little Help): D.C. Phillips.

22. On the Limits of Empirical Educational Research, Beyond theFantasy: A Rejoinder to D.C. Phillips: Paul Smeyers.