Biesta, Gert <br/><br/>
Educational research :  an unorthodox introduction / 
Gert Biesta 
 - London, United Kingdom :  Bloomsbury Publishing,  c2020 
 - viii, 169 pages ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781350097971 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>EDUCATION RESEARCH
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>LB 1028 .B54 2020