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This book evaluates the increasingly wide variety of intellectual resources for research methods and methodologies and investigates what constitutes good educational research. Written by a distinguished international group of philosophers of education Questions what sorts of research can usefully inform policy and practice, and what inferences can be drawn from different kinds of research Demonstrates the critical engagement of philosophers of education with the wider educational research community and illustrates the benefits that can accrue from such engagement

Table of Contents:
Notes on Contributors vii Preface xi 1. Philosophy, Methodology and Educational Research: Introduction 1 David Bridges and Richard Smith 2. The Myth of ‘Scientific Method’ in Contemporary Educational Research 11 Darrell Patrick Rowbottom and Sarah Jane Aiston 3. As if by Machinery: The Levelling of Educational Research 31 Richard Smith 4. ‘A Demented Form of the Familiar’: Postmodernism and Educational Research 43 Maggie MacLure 5. The Disciplines and Discipline of Educational Research 61 David Bridges 6. Consistency, Understand and Truth in Educational Research 75 Andrew Davis 7. No Harm Done: The Implications for Educational Research of the Rejection of Truth 89 Stefan Ramaekers 8. The Quantitative-Qualitative Distinction and the Null Hypothesis Significance Testing Procedure 107 Nimal Ratnesar and Jim Mackenzie 9. A View from Somewhere: Explaining the Paradigms of Educational Research 117 Hanan A. Alexander 10. Philosophy, Methodology and Action Research 133 Wilfred Carr 11. Educational Research as a Form of Democratic Rationality 149 John Elliott 12. Philosophical Research and Educational Action Research 167 Marianna Papastephanou 13. Why Generalisablity is not Generalisable 185 Lynn Fendler 14. On Generalising from Single Case Studies: Epistemological Reflections 199 Colin W. Evers and Echo H. Wu 15. Epistemological Issues in Phenomenological Research: How Authoritative are People’s Accounts of their own Perceptions? 215 Bas Levering 16. Reasons and Causes in Educational Research: Overcoming Dichotomies and Other Conceptual Confusions 227 Paul Smeyers 17. Philosophy’s Contribution to Social Science Research on Education 251 Martyn Hammersley 18. US Graduate Study in Education Research: From Methodology to Potential Totalization 265 Lynda Stone 19. Shovelling Smoke? The Experience of Being a Philosopher on an Educational Research Training Programme 283 Judith Suissa 20. Induction into Educational Research Networks: The Striated and the Smooth 299 Naomi Hodgson and Paul Standish 21. The Contested Nature of Empirical Educational Research (and Why Philosophy of Education Offers Little Help) 311 D.C. Phillips 22. On the Limits of Empirical Educational Research, Beyond the Fantasy: A Rejoinder to D.C. Phillips 333 Paul Smeyers Index 351

About the Author :
David Bridges is currently Executive Director of the Association of Universities of the Eastern Region and a Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Applied Research in Education, University of East Anglia. Richard Smith is Professor of Education at Durham University.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781405145138
  • Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 384
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Width: 153 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1405145137
  • Publisher Date: 02 Sep 2007
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Series Title: Journal of Philosophy of Education
  • Weight: 548 gr


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