Educational research why "what works" doesn't work /
Education and educational research are concerned with 'what works', to the exclusion of all other considerations. This book focuses on the problematical nature of the search for 'what works' in educational contexts, in practice as well as in theory.
| Other Authors: | Smeyers, Paul, 1953-, Depaepe, Marc., SpringerLink (Online service) |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Dordrecht ; [New York] :
Springer,
©2006.
Dordrecht ; [New York] : [2006] |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (vi, 195 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- The 'good practices' of Jozef Emiel Verheyen
- schoolman and Professor of Education at the Ghent University / Marc Depaepe, Frank Simon & Angelo Van Gorp
- Ovide Decroly, a hero of education / Angelo Van Gorp
- Why generalizability is not generalizable / Lynn Fendler
- The new languages and old institutions : problems of implementing new school governance / Daniel Tröhler
- Problematization or methodology / James D. Marshall
- The relevance of irrelevant research ; the irrelevance of relevant research / Paul Smeyers
- Expectations of what schientific research could (not) do / Kathleen Coessens and Jean Paul Van Bendegem
- Kuhnian science and education research : analytics of practice and training / Lynda Stone
- The international and the excellent in educational research / David Bridges
- Technical difficulties : the workings of practical judgement / Richard Smith
- The science of education
- disciplinary knowledge on non-knowledge/ignorance? / Edwin Keiner.