Educational Research

An Unorthodox Introduction

Professor Gert Biesta (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

184 Seiten

2020
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
9781350097988 (ISBN)

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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.

Gert Biesta is Professor of Public Education at the Centre for Public Education and Pedagogy, Maynooth University, Ireland; Professorial Fellow for Educational Theory and Pedagogy at the Moray House School of Education and Sport, University of Edinburgh, UK; NIVOZ Professor for Education at the University of Humanistic Studies, The Netherlands; and Visiting Professor at the University of Agder, Norway. He is Associate Editor of Educational Theory and Co-Editor of British Educational Research Journal. He is the author of The Beautiful Risk of Education (2014), The Rediscovery of Teaching (2017), Obstinate Education (2019), and co-author of Reflective Teaching in Further, Adult and Vocational Education (2015) and Teacher Agency (2015).

Foreword

Prologue: The Orthodoxies of Educational Research
1. Theories, Fashions and the Need for Pragmatism
2. Making Education Better
3. ‘What Works’ is Not Enough
4. The Practice of Education
5. Configurations of Educational Research
6. Education, Measurement, and Democracy
7. Knowledge Reconsidered
8. The Political Economy of Academic Publishing
Epilogue: Too Much Research?

References
Acknowledgements
About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	20.03.2020
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 236 mm
Gewicht	420 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
ISBN-13	9781350097988 / 9781350097988
Zustand	Neuware