Baez / Boyles The Politics of Inquiry

Education Research and the "Culture of Science"
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-7914-7706-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 249 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Argues against the “culture of science” currently dominating education discourse and in favor of a more critical understanding of various modes of inquiry.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baez, Benjamin

Boyles, Deron

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Philosophie der Erziehung, Bildungstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

1. ON “EDUCATION RESEARCH”

2. ON SCIENTISM AND POSITIVISM: JOHN DEWEY AND EDUCATION RESEARCH

3. DEGREES OF DISTINCTION: EDUCATION DOCTORAL STUDY AND THE “CULTURE OF SCIENCE”

4. “GOVERNING” SCIENCE: THE SCIENTIFIC IMAGINARY AND THE CREATION OF PEOPLE IN THE INFORMATION AGE

5. ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND THE “GRANTS CULTURE”: PRIVATIZATION OF RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC FREEDOM

EPILOGUE
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX

Über Autor(innen)

Benjamin Baez is Associate Professor of Higher Education at Florida International University and coeditor (with Marybeth Gasman and Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner) of Understanding Minority-Serving Institutions, also published by SUNY Press. Deron Boyles is Professor of Philosophy of Education at Georgia State University and editor of The Corporate Assault on Youth: Commercialism, Exploitation, and the End of Innocence.