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This book evaluates the increasingly wide variety of intellectual resources for research methods and methodologies and investigates what constitutes good educational research. * Written by a distinguished international group of philosophers of education * Questions what sorts of research can usefully inform policy and practice, and what inferences can be drawn from different kinds of research * Demonstrates the critical engagement of philosophers of education with the wider educational research community and illustrates the benefits that can accrue from such engagement
| ISBN | 1405145137 | | Volumes | 1 | | ISBN13 | 9781405145138
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 514 | | Publisher | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | | Published in | Chicester | | Imprint | Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd) | | Series ISSN | 0309-824 | | Format | Paperback | | Series title | Journal of Philosophy of Education | | Publication date | 02 Sep 2007 | | Height (mm) | 228 | | Library of Congress | 2007028746 | | Width (mm) | 154 | | DEWEY | 370.72 | | Spine width (mm) | 21 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Professional / Scholarly | | Pages | 376 | |
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1. Introduction: David Bridges and Richard Smith. 2. The Myth of 'Scientific Method' in Contemporary Educational 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': Postmodernism and Educational Research: Maggie MacLure. 5. The Disciplines and Discipline of Educational Research: David Bridges. 6. Consistency, Understanding and Truth in Educational Research: Andrew Davis. 7. No Harm Done: The Implications for Educational Research of the Rejection of Truth: Stefan Ramaekers. 8. The Quantitative-Qualitative Distinction and the Null Hypothesis Significance Testing Procedure: Nimal Ratnesar and Jim Mackenzie. 9. A View from Somewhere: Explaining the Paradigms of Educational Research: Hanan Alexander. 10. Philosophy, Methodology and Action Research: Wilfred Carr. 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: Epistemological Reflections: Colin W. Evers and Echo H. Wu. 15. Epistemological Issues in Phenomenological Research: How Authoritative are People's Accounts of their own Perceptions?: Bas Levering. 16. Reasons and Causes in Educational Research: Overcoming Dichotomies and Other Conceptual Confusions: Paul Smeyers. 17. Philosophy's Contribution to Social Science Research on Education: Martin Hammersley. 18. US Graduate Study in Education Research: From Methodology to Potential Totalization: Lynda Stone. 19. Shovelling Smoke? The Experience of Being a Philosopher on a Research Training Programme: Judith Suissa. 20. Induction into Educational Research Networks: The Striated and the Smooth: Naomi Hodgson and Paul Standish. 21. The Contested Nature of Empirical Educational Research (and Why Philosophy of Education Offers Little Help): D.C. Phillips. 22. On the Limits of Empirical Educational Research, Beyond the Fantasy: A Rejoinder to D.C. Phillips: Paul Smeyers.
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