| Philosophy, Methodology and Educational Research Contributor(s): Bridges, David (Editor), Smith, Richard D. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1405145137 ISBN-13: 9781405145138 Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell OUR PRICE: $34.44 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2007 Annotation: 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 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects - Philosophy | History & Surveys - General |
| Dewey: 370.1 |
| LCCN: 2007028746 |
| Series: Journal of Philosophy of Education Books |
| Physical Information: 0.86" H x 6.16" W x 8.89" (1.16 lbs) 384 pages |
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| Publisher Description: This book evaluates the increasingly wide variety of intellectual resources for research methods and methodologies and investigates what constitutes good educational research.
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