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Ghadikolaei, Elham Shirvani; Sajjadi, Seyed Mahdi – Educational Research and Reviews, 2015
Epistemology is defined as theory of knowledge and the ways of achieving it. Epistemology is research questions of the possibility of knowledge and the riddle of knowledge. Epistemology and methodology despite being interconnected are inseparable and are not reducible from each other. In addition, their relationship is direct, meaning that…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Educational Research, Research Methodology, Scientific Research
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Tröhler, Daniel – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2015
This paper starts from the assumption of the emergence of an educationalized culture over the last 200 years according to which perceived social problems are translated into educational challenges. As a result, both educational institutions and educational research grew, and educational policy resulted from negotiations between professionals,…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Policy, Educational Change, Social Science Research
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Lemberger, Matthew E. – Journal of Humanistic Counseling, 2012
In his extension of the humanistic vision, Hansen (2012) recommends that counseling practitioners and scholars adopt operations that are consistent with his definition of a multiple-perspective philosophy. Alternatively, the author of this article believes that Hansen has reduced the capacity of the human to interpret meaning through quantitative…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Research Methodology, Humanistic Education, Humanism
Briton, Derek – 1996
This book challenges the dominant vision of adult education and the modernist principles underlying contemporary adult education practice. It reviews the emergence of technical rationality as a driving force behind adult education today and examines the critique of the empiricist-analytical tradition of science, considering science as an ideology.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cultural Context, Educational Philosophy, Educational Practices
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Salomone, Rosemary C. – Teachers College Record, 2006
In March, 2004, the federal Department of Education issued proposed Title IX regulations that promise to provide public school districts and charter school organizers considerable flexibility in establishing single-sex classes and schools. At the same time, however, as part of the No Child Left Behind Act, the Department has called for…
Descriptors: Single Sex Classes, Educational Research, Single Sex Schools, Educational Policy
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Willower, Donald J. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1996
Presents a naturalistic perspective on inquiry as a compelling philosophy for educational administration. Naturalistic inquiry is ethical, open, growing, self-corrective, fallible, and resembles scientific inquiry. Subjectivism, neo-Marxist critical theory, postmodernism, and identity politics are all creatures of the times. Thriving on relativism…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Educational Administration, Educational Philosophy, Educational Research