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Educational Research: An Unorthodox Introduction de Professor Gert Biesta

Educational Research: An Unorthodox Introduction

Autor Professor Gert Biesta
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 mar 2020
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350097971
ISBN-10: 1350097977
Pagini: 184
Dimensiuni: 154 x 234 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

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

Recenzii

Thoughtful and thought-provoking ... a welcome and educational addition to the literature about educational research and one that is worthy of respect by research students and established academics alike.
Biesta is unique in the persistence and incisiveness of his critique of contemporary education and the place of research in it, and in this book he does a marvellous job of marshalling, explicating and developing his ideas. If only for his comments on theory, what works, and academic publishing, all education academics should read it.
[Biesta] weaves a rich discussion where every sentence is meaningfully constructed... A fresh perspective on many educational research orthodoxies.
Providing intellectual challenge, insight and assurance in the often complex work of educational research, Gert Biesta encourages readers to question many of the common and dominant assumptions that have come to pervade the field of educational research. For doctoral and postgraduate researchers, this is a 'must have' text.
According to educational philosopher Gert Biesta, 'effectiveness' is never an educational good in itself and without normative and critical purposes of educational practices politicians and educational 'managers' risk to misunderstand and damage education. His book is a fertile invitation to discuss what educational research is and what it is good for. Biesta once again testifies that he is an irreplaceable voice when it comes to education.
With Gert Biesta's new book, we can create an inspired, diverse, and useful field. Education Research: An Unorthodox Introduction is informative, thoughtful, and written in a language that is clear without being condescending. It is the best book on educational research I have read in a long time and reading it made me wish I taught a graduate course on educational research again.
A really useful text to give students a good handle on different things that have informed education research and will inform their own research. A really good window on the bigger picture that is written in an accessible and thought-provoking way.