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An Elusive Science: The Troubling History of Education Research

An Elusive Science: The Troubling History of Education Research

Lagemann, Ellen Condliffe

Paperback

General Education

ISBN10: 0226467732
ISBN13: 9780226467733
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: May 15 2002
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.97 Depth: 9.08
Language: English
Since its beginnings at the start of the 20th century, educational scholarship has been a marginal field, criticized by public policy makers and relegated to the fringes of academe. An Elusive Science explains why, providing a critical history of the traditions, conflicts, and institutions that have shaped the study of education over the past century.

[C]andid and incisive. . . . A stark yet enlightening look at American education.--Library Journal

[A]n account of the search, over the past hundred or so years, to try and discover how educational research might provide reliable prescriptions for the improvement of education. Through extensive use of contemporary reference material, [Lagemann] shows that the search for ways of producing high-quality research has been, in effect, a search for secure disciplinary foundations.--Dylan William, Times Higher Education Supplement

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