Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Gert J. J. Biesta is professor of educational theory at University of Exeter.
Nicholas C. Burbules is professor of educational policy studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and the editor of Educational Theory.
Biesta and Burbules's <i>Pragmatism and Educational Research</i> is the best book I have seen on the implications of pragmatism for social and educational research. It offers a sophisticated yet clear exposition of Dewey's work on experience, knowledge, inquiry, and truth, among other subjects. His pragmatism is then put to work, throwing light on current controversies in educational research. The upshot is a way of approaching educational research that is simultaneously scientific and humane and avoids the polarizing pitfalls of positivism, post-positivism, and post-modernism. This book deserves to have a major influence on the way educational research is conceived.
- Eric Bredo, University of Virginia,
This well-crafted and accessible volume delivers a vivid account of the central themes of John Dewey's philosophy as they apply to educational research. Biesta and Burbules present a Dewey who is relevant for educators at every level and of every methodological persuasion.
- Larry A. Hickman, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale,
This volume is a wonderfully concise and lucid exposition of the pragmatic theory of learning and knowing.
Teachers College Record
This is a book that will find a wide readership in doctoral programs in education; this is especially true of those, like ours at Michigan State, which require students to take a general inquiry course as part of their research preparation. This book provides ideal intellectual fare for such a course.
- Richard Prawat, Michigan State University,
Chapter 1 Series Preface Nicholas C. Burbules
Chapter 3 1. What is Pragmatism?
Chapter 4 2. From Experience to Knowledge
Chapter 5 3. The Process of Inquiry
Chapter 6 4. Consequences of Pragmatism
Chapter 7 5. Pragmatism and Educational Research
This series is designed to explore some of the most important philosophical and theoretical positions influencing educational research today, in a manner that does justice to the substance of these views and shows their relevance for research purposes and practices. A distinguished international group of scholars explains these positions in straightforward terms, making these books suitable for courses in Educational Research Methods and Foundations of Educational Research. The overall goal of the series is to keep a wider discussion about these positions relevant to educational research at a time when the tendency is toward a narrowing of methods and methodologies. Each volume will show how a particular set of philosophical and theoretical positions affects the methods and aims of educational research; and each will discuss specific examples of research that shows these orientations at work. The emphasis is on lively, accessible, but theoretically sound explorations of the issues. These books are intended to be of interest not only to educational researchers but to anyone in education wanting to understand what these various "isms" are about.
Series Editor: Nicholas C. Burbules
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Gert J. J. Biesta is professor of educational theory at University of Exeter.
Nicholas C. Burbules is professor of educational policy studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and the editor of Educational Theory.