Improving Education: Realist Approaches to Method and Research by Joanna Swann
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Improving Education
Improving Education
Summary
Stimulated by late-1990s debate in the UK on quality, effectiveness and usefulness of educational research (reports by OFSTED, DFEE and NFER), this book shows how to improve research, combining principles and practice, and offers case studies from primary, secondary, tertiary and adult sectors.
Improving Education Summary
Table of Contents
Part 1 Principles: realism, empiricism, pursuit of truth; postmodern attacks of rationalization; Popper's theory of research; making better plans; critical realism. Part 2 Practice: applications of principles; using critical realism in policy; improving lecturers assessment in H.E.; logic of learning in primary schools; practitioners in adult education; research and policy development; Popperians approach to enquiry.
Additional information
GOR003441041
9780304705542
0304705543
Improving Education: Realist Approaches to Method and Research by Joanna Swann
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
1999-10-01
208
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