Issues in education research : problems and possibilities /
[edited by] Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, Lee S. Shulman.
- 1st ed.
- San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers, c1999.
- xxix, 424 p. ; 25 cm.
- The Jossey-Bass education series .
""Commissioned and reviewed by an NAE study group, the Commission on the Improvement of Education Research (CIER)""--P. xiii.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Introduction: The Improvement of Education Research: A Complex, Continuing Quest - E. Lagemann & L. Shulman; EDUCATION RESEARCH AS A PROBLEM IN THE HISTORY AND SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION; An Auspicious Moment for Education Research? - E. Lagemann; Research and Purposes of Education - D. Cohen & C. Barnes; Poles Apart: Reconciling the Dichotomies of Education Research - T. Mitchell & A. Haro; Needed: Thoughtful Research for Thoughtful Schools - D. Meier; CHANGING CONFIGURATIONS IN EDUCATION AND SOCIAL RESEARCH; Sociology and the Study of Education: Continuity, Discontinuity, and the Individualist Turn - C. Bidwell; From Society to School and Back Again: Questions about Learning in and for a World of Complex Organizations - E. Clemens; Understanding Educational Processes in an Era of Globalization: The View from Anthropology and Cultural Studies - K. Hall; EDUCATION RESEARCH AS A VOCATION; Professing Educational Scholarship - L. Shulman; The Core, the Canon, and the Development of Research Skills: Issues in the Preparation of Education Researchers - A. Shoenfeld; Discipline and Disciplines in Education Research-Elusive Goals? - S. Heath; Culture and Commitment: Challenges for the Future Training of Education Researchers - V. Walker; Preparing Education Practitioners to Practice Education Research - A. Neuman, et al; THE ORGANIZATION AND COMMUNICATION OF EDUCATION RESEARCH; The Changing Infrastructure of Education Research - A. Collins; Research, Reform, and Aims in Education: Modes of Action in Search of Each Other - J. Greeno, et al; New Media Communications Forums for Improving Education Research and Practice - R. Pea; Multiples of Evidence, Time, and Perspective: Revising the Study of Teaching and Learning - D. Ball & M. Lampert; Postscript: Some Reflections on Education Research - J. Bruner.
In this work, more than 20 scholars examine the state of education research, discussing how it is changing and where it needs to go.