Evidence-Based Education Policy: What Evidence? What Basis? Whose Policy?

ISBN: 978-1-4051-9411-2

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210 pages

June 2009, Wiley-Blackwell

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Notes on ContributorsPreface (Lesley Saunders).

1. Educational Research and the Practical Judgement of Policy-Makers (David Bridges, Paul Smeyers and Richard Smith).

2. The Importance of Being Thorough: On Systematic Accumulations of ‘What Works’ in Education Research (Alis Oancea and Richard Pring).

3. Educational Research and Policy: Epistemological Considerations (David Bridges and Michael Watts).

4. On the Epistemological Basis of Large-Scale Population Studies and their Educational Use (Paul Smeyers).

5. Epistemology as Ethics in Research and Policy: The Use of Case Studies (John Elliott and Dominik Lukeš).

6. Personal Narratives and Policy (Never the Twain?: Morwenna Griffiths and Gale Macleod).

7. Action Research and Policy (Lorraine Foreman-Peck and Jane Murray).

8. Philosophy as a Basis for Policy and Practice: What Confidence Can We Have in Philosophical Analysis and Argument? (James C. Conroy, Robert A. Davis and Penny Enslin).

9. Proteus Rising: Re-Imagining Educational Research (Richard Smith).

Index