Educational Research: Ethics, Social Justice, and Funding Dynamics 2018 Edition Contributor(s): Smeyers, Paul (Editor), Depaepe, Marc (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3319739204 ISBN-13: 9783319739205 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Education | Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects - Political Science | Public Policy - Social Policy - Education | History |
Dewey: 170 |
Series: Educational Research |
Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.35 lbs) 295 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This book examines the conduct and purposes of educational research. It looks at values of researchers, at whose interests are served by the research, and the inclusion or exclusion of practitioners and subjects of research. It asks if educational research should be explicitly committed to promoting equality and inclusion, and whether that requires research to be more aware of the cultural and global contexts of research questions. It explores the ethical challenges encountered in the conduct of research and the potential ethical and social justice constraints imposed by comparative research rankings. Next, it discusses the research funding aspects of the above issues both philosophically and historically, thus examining the changing sources, patterns, and effects of educational research funding over time. Since the conduct of most educational research increasingly requires institutional and financial support, the question is whether funding shapes the content of research, and what counts as research. The book discusses if funding is a factor in the shift of efforts of researchers from pure or basic research to more applied research, and if it encourages the development of large research teams, to the detriment of individual scholars. It looks at the ownership of the content, results, and data of publicly funded research. Finally, it tries to establish whether scholars solicit funding to support research projects, or generate research projects to attract funding. This publication, as well as the ones that are mentioned in the preliminary pages of this work, were realized by the Research Community Philosophy and History of the Discipline of Education: Purposes, Projects, and Practices of Educational Research. |