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

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Smeyers, Paul (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Depaepe, Marc (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• The ‘Good Practices’ of Jozef Emiel Verheyen – Schoolman and Professor of Education at the Ghent University
• Ovide Decroly, A Hero of Education
• Why Generalizability is not Generalizable
• The New Languages and Old Institutions: Problems of Implementing New School Governance
• Problematization or Methodology
• The Relevance of Irrelevant Research; The Irrelevance of Relevant Research
• Expectations of What Scientific Research could (not) Do
• Kuhnian Science and Education Research: Analytics of Practice and Training
• The International and the Excellent in Educational Research
• Technical Difficulties: The Workings of Practical Judgement
• The Science of Education – Disciplinary Knowledge on Non-Knowledge/Ignorance?.