As if by Machinery: The Levelling of Educational Research

Autor/in	Smith, Richard
Titel	As if by Machinery: The Levelling of Educational Research
Quelle	In: Journal of Philosophy of Education, 40 (2006) 2, S.157-168 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0309-8249
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-9752.2006.00509.x
Schlagwörter	Educational Research; Research Methodology; Educational Researchers; Social Sciences; Theories + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Erziehungswissenschaftler; Erziehungswissenschaftlerin; Social science; Sozialwissenschaften; Gesellschaftswissenschaften; Theory; Theorie
Abstract	Much current educational research shows the influence of two powerful but potentially pernicious lines of thought. The first, which can be traced at least as far back as Francis Bacon, is the ambition to formulate precise techniques of research, or "research methods", which can be applied reliably irrespective of the talent of the researcher. The second is the recognition that in the social sciences we--humankind--are ourselves the objects of our study. The first line of thought threatens to cut educational research free of the wider range of ideas and theories that should govern or at least inform it. The second tends to turn it into an absorption with self, particularly when allied to what its practitioners like to think of as the postmodern turn. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10