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Understanding Education and Educational Research (Hardcover)
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Understanding Education and Educational Research (Hardcover)
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Educational research is widely believed to be essentially
empirical, consisting mainly of collecting and analysing data, with
randomised control trials as the 'gold standard'. This book argues
that good educational research is often philosophical in nature.
Offering a critical overview of the current state of educational
research, the authors argue that there are two factors in
particular that distort it. One is that throughout the world it is
expected to serve the interests of the state in securing
educational improvements, as measured by standardised examination
results, and to demonstrate 'scientific' credentials sufficient to
guarantee absence of ideological bias and carry conviction. The
other is that learning to do educational research is generally seen
as a matter of being trained in empirical 'research methods'. The
authors demonstrate, by contrast, that good educational research
needs the rigorous thinking characteristic of philosophy, and that
philosophical treatments themselves sometimes constitute such
research.
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