Educational Research: Why ‘What Works’ Doesn't Work

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Smeyers, Paul (Editor), Depaepe, Marc (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Subjects: Education.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Educational sociology.; Higher education.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Higher Education.; Philosophy of Education.; Sociology of Education.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Education, general.

Education and educational research, according to the current fashion, are supposed to be concerned with ‘what works’, to the exclusion of all other considerations. All over the world, and particularly in the English-speaking countries, governments look for means of improving ‘student achievement’ as...