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Educational research : an unorthodox introduction / Gert Biesta

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London, United Kingdom : Bloomsbury Publishing, c2020Description: viii, 169 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781350097971
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • LB 1028 .B54 2020
Contents:
Foreword Prologue: The Orthodoxies of Educational Research -- 1. Theories, Fashions and the Need for Pragmatism -- 2. Making Education Better -- 3. 'What Works' is Not Enough -- 4. The Practice of Education -- 5. Configurations of Educational Research -- 6. Education, Measurement, and Democracy -- 7. Knowledge Reconsidered -- 8. The Political Economy of Academic Publishing -- Epilogue: Too Much Research? -- References -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author.
Summary: Educational Research: An Unorthodox Introduction steps you through the wider social and political contexts of educational research, focusing on fundamental questions such as what education actually 'is' and what it is for. In doing so, the book raises questions that more 'orthodox' introductions to the theory and practice of educational research often leave aside.
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Books Books National University - Manila LRC - Graduate Studies General Circulation Master of Science in Psychology GC LB 1028 .B54 2020 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.1 Available NULIB000019059

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword Prologue: The Orthodoxies of Educational Research -- 1. Theories, Fashions and the Need for Pragmatism -- 2. Making Education Better -- 3. 'What Works' is Not Enough -- 4. The Practice of Education -- 5. Configurations of Educational Research -- 6. Education, Measurement, and Democracy -- 7. Knowledge Reconsidered -- 8. The Political Economy of Academic Publishing -- Epilogue: Too Much Research? -- References -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author.

Educational Research: An Unorthodox Introduction steps you through the wider social and political contexts of educational research, focusing on fundamental questions such as what education actually 'is' and what it is for. In doing so, the book raises questions that more 'orthodox' introductions to the theory and practice of educational research often leave aside.

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