Addresses questions such as: What is evidence based practice? How does it operate? What are the arguments against it?[...]
Written by the six co-directors of the Nuffield Review of 14-19 Education and Training, this book asks 'What makes an educated 19 year old?' in the light of evidence collected over years by the investigation of every aspect of 14-19 education and training.[...]
Philosophy of Education brings together for the first time Professor Pring's thoughts on the philosophy of education. His writings reflect a consistency of thought about educational theory and educational aims - and the consequence of both for the nature and practice of educational research. Profess[...]
Bertrand Russell's History of Philosophy refers to Dewey as 'generally admitted to be the leading living philosopher of America'. This honourable mention lay partly in his pragmatic theory of meaning, through which so many baffling philosophical problems were claimed to have been solved - as well as[...]
This classic text in educational research literature has been thoroughly updated to take into account new philosophical theories and the current political context for educational research. Remaining, however, are the three, key central themes: the nature of social science in general; the nature of [...]