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Paradigm and Ideology in Educational Research (RLE Edu L) The Social Functions of the Intellectual

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This book explores the complex social assumptions and values that underlie research programmes about schools. The analysis of educational research draws upon American and European scholarships in the sociology of knowledge, social philosophy and the history and sociology of science. The discussion considers first the communal, crafts and social characteristics of educational research. Three... Read more

Preface. 1. Educational Research: Ideologies and Visions of Social Order. Part 1: Science As Discourse and Interest. 2. Paradigms in Educational Science: Different Meanings and Purpose to Theory. 3. Soviet Pedagogical Sciences: Visions and Contradictions. 4. ‘Qualitative’ Research: Some Thoughts about the Relation of Methods and History. Part 2: Roles of the Intellectual in Contemporary Society. 5. Social Science and Social Amelioration: The Development of the American Academic Expert. 6. Motion As Educational Change: The Misuse and Irrelevancy of Two Research Paradigms. 7. Educational Evaluation as a Political Form. 8. The Researcher as a Social Actor: Possibilities, Pathologies and Notes of Caution. Index.