It is one sign of the lack of understanding of the value of the humanities, to educational research and inquiry as well as to our world more widely, that such justifications of them as are offered frequently take a crudely instrumental form. The humanities (which in this essay are not distinguished from the arts) are welcomed insofar as they are…

In "Moderating the Debate: Rationality and the Promise of American Education," Michael Feuer raises concerns about the consequences of basing educational policy on the model of rational choice drawn from economics. Policy making would be better and more realistic, he suggests, if it were based on a newer procedural model drawn from cognitive…

This paper examines the debate about whether psychologists' quantitative research on teaching can be considered scientific, paying particular attention to whether one branch of quantitative research on teaching, entitled process-product or process-outcome research, merits scientific status. Empirical evidence that applies to educational research…