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Direct linkLather, Patti – British Educational Research Journal, 2004
This article reviews the debate in the USA about quality in educational research which has underpinned particular approaches to educational research being mandated in federal legislation. It argues that the movement towards 'evidence-based policy and practice' oversimplifies complex problems and is being used to warrant governmental incursion into…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Scientific Research, Federal Legislation, Scientific Methodology
Lather, Patti – Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, 2004
This essay looks at governmental incursion into legislating scientific method in the realm of educational research. Using critical theory, I argue that the politics of the science of the U.S. accountability movement in public education is a backlash against efforts to open science up via cultural studies, feminist methodology, and social studies…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Scientific Methodology, Educational Research, Public Education
