基本説明
Demonstrates the critical engagement of philosopher of educations with the wider educational research community and illustrates the benefits that can accrue from such engagement.
Full Description
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
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
