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Improving education : realist approaches to method and research
- Title
- Improving education : realist approaches to method and research / edited by Joanna Swann and John Pratt.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Cassell, 1999.
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- Description
- xii, 196 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Improving Education: Realist Approaches to Method and Research provides a constructive discussion of the philosophical and practical issues involved in improving education. Its treatment of philosophy is both original and accessible. It provides a clear analysis and evaluation of empiricism, postmodernism, fallibilism and realism and, in particular, highlights the usefulness in educational contexts of the philosophy of Karl Popper."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Cassell education
- Uniform Title
- Cassell education
- Subject
- Popper, Karl R. 1902-1994
- Popper, Karl R. 1902-1994
- Education > Research > Case studies
- Education > Philosophy > Case studies
- Educational change > Case studies
- 81.12 educational development
- Education > Philosophy
- Education > Research
- Educational change
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Bildungswesen
- Erziehungsphilosophie
- Qualitätssteigerung
- Onderwijsvernieuwing
- Genre/Form
- Case studies
- Case studies.
- Études de cas.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-191) and index.
- Contents
- pt. I. Context. 1. Crisis of Method / John Pratt and Joanna Swann -- pt. II. Principles. 2. Pursuing Truth: A Science of Education / Joanna Swann. 3. Abdication of Reason: Postmodern Attacks Upon Science and Reason / Richard Bailey. 4. Testing Policy / John Pratt. 5. Making Better Plans: Problem-based Versus Objectives-based Planning / Joanna Swann. 6. Critical Realism: Post-Popper Realism for the Real World / David Corson -- pt. III. Practice. 7. Higher Education in Britain: Policy and Practice 1956-92 / John Pratt. 8. Empowering Lecturers to Improve Assessment Practice in Higher Education / Joanna Swann and Kathryn Ecclestone. 9. Reconsidering the Prescribed Curriculum / Ronald Swartz.
- ISBN
- 0304705535
- 9780304705535
- 0304705543
- 9780304705542
- LCCN
- 99495043
- OCLC
- ocm41339049
- 41339049
- SCSB-1218896
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library