Educational explanations : philosophy in empirical educational research /
"Millions of pounds are spent on educational research each year in the UK alone. By far the greatest proportion of this expenditure is on research which is thought to have practical relevance to educational problems and the vast majority of this is spent on empirical educational research, that...
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| Language: | English |
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Hoboken, NJ :
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,
2022.
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| Series: | Journal of philosophy of education book series.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : what is the question?
- A criterial conception of truth and objectivity : its relevance to educational research
- Why empirical educational research needs to be taken seriously
- The concept of an educational explanation and an account of what explanatory adequacy should look like
- How good is empirical research-disaster and success?
- Can empirical research-based knowledge be cumulative?
- Converging explanations : quantitative and qualitative methods and how they are related
- Intervention studies, experimental methods and evidence-based policy
- Case study 1. Bernsteinian sociolinguistics
- Case study 2. The comparative study of vocational education
- Case study 3. School effectiveness and improvement research
- Case study 4. Research on the teaching of reading debate and on dyslexia
- Educational faddism and how to (possibly) avoid it
- How philosophical and empirical research can work together
- Prospects for empirical educational research and its future relevance to policy and practice.