Educational Research: An Unorthodox IntroductionBloomsbury Publishing, 2020 M03 19 - 184 páginas With so much technical information about research methods it is easy to lose sight of the bigger picture of why we carry out educational research and where and how research might contribute to the improvement of education. 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. Gert Biesta covers a range of key issues which permeate any educational research project, including the roles of theory in research, what it means and takes to improve education, the nature of educational practice, the history of educational research and scholarship, the connection between research, professionality and democracy and what the social and political dimensions of academic publishing are. Each chapter includes a set of questions to stimulate further discussion. |
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Theories Fashions and the Need for Pragmatism | 7 |
Making Education Better | 25 |
What Works Is Not Enough | 47 |
The Practice of Education | 63 |
Configurations of Educational Research | 77 |
Education Measurement and Democracy | 99 |
Knowledge Reconsidered | 119 |
The Political Economy of Academic Publishing | 133 |
Too Much Research? | 149 |
References | 153 |
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