For education : towards critical educational inquiry
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For education : towards critical educational inquiry
Open University Press, 1995
- : hdk.
- : pbk.
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Papers previously published in various journals between 1980 and 1989
Includes bibliographical references (p. [137]-143) and index
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: pbk. ISBN 9780335191864
Description
A recent review of his work describes Wilfred Carr as 'one of the most brilliant philosophers now working in the rich British tradition of educational philosophy ... His work is rigorous, refreshing and original ... and examines a number of fundamental issues with clarity and penetration'.
In For Education Wilfred Carr provides a comprehensive justification for reconstructing educational theory and research as a form of critical inquiry. In doing this, he confronts a number of important philosophical questions. What is educational theory? What is an educational practice? How are theory and practice related? What is the role of values in educational research? Is a genuinely educational science possible? By appealing to developments in critical theory, the philosophy of science and the philosophy of the social sciences, Wilfred Carr provides answers to these questions which vindicate the idea of an educational science that is not 'on' or 'about' education but 'for education' - a science genuinely committed to promoting educational values and ideals.
Table of Contents
Prologue by Stephen Kemmis
Introduction: Becoming an Educational Philosopher
PART ONE. THEORIZING EDUCATION: The Gap between Theory and Practice
Theories of Theory and Practice
Adopting an Educational Philosophy
What is an Educational Practice?
PART TWO. TOWARDS A CRITICAL EDUCATIONAL SCIENCE: Can Educational Research be Scientific?
Philosophy, Values and an Educational Science
Whatever Happened to Action Research?
The Idea of an Educational Science
Epilogue: Resisting the Postmodernist Challenge
Notes and References
Bibliography
Index.
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: hdk. ISBN 9780335191871
Description
In this text, Wilfred Carr provides a comprehensive justification for reconstructing educational theory and research as a form of critical inquiry. In doing this, he confronts a number of important philosophical questions: What is educational theory? What is an educational practice? How are theory and practice related? What is the role of values in educational research? Is a genuinely educational science possible? By appealing to developments in critical theory, the philosophy of science and the philosophy of the social sciences, Wilfred Carr provides answers to these questions which vindicate the idea of an educational science that is not "on" or "about" education but "for education" - a science genuinely committed to promoting educational values and ideals.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Theorizing education: the gap between theory and practice
- theories of theory and practice
- adopting an educational philosophy
- what is an educational practice? Part 2 Towards a critical educational science: can educational research be scientific?
- philosophy, values and an educational science
- whatever happened to action research?
- the idea of an educational science
- epilogue - resisting the postmodernist challenge.
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