Education, Epistemology and Critical Realism

ISBN-13: 9780415617185 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 148 str.

David Scott

Opis

This work addresses fundamental questions in relation to education and its epistemology from a critical realist position. A broad range of themes and crucial issues are addressed in the book.

Spis treści

@contents: 1. Introduction and Initial Thoughts  2. Critical Realism and Empirical Research Methods in Education  3. Resolving the Quantitative–Qualitative Divide  4. Epistemic Relativism, Ontological Realism, and the Possibility of Judgemental Rationality  5. Educational Judgements: Epistemic, Parasitic and External Criteria  6. Judgemental Rationality  7. Empirical Indicators and Causal Narratives  8. Structure and Agency – Key Ontological Concepts  9. Educational Critique  10. Arbitrary and Non-Arbitrary Knowledge

O autorze

David Scott is Professor of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment at the Institute of Education, University of London. He has previously worked at the universities of Warwick, Southampton and Lincoln. His most recent book is Critical Essays on Major Curriculum Theorists published by Routledge.