Concept
Educational research
Overview
systematic collection and analysis of data related to the field of education
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Possible passages
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This point may be illustrated by brief reference to a few of the school studies. In the first place, there is no line of demarkation within facts themselves which classifies them as belonging to science, history, or geography, respectively.
John Dewey, Moral Principles in Education
Close in meaning to Educational research; the term itself is not named.
In the course of two or three generations such questions were cut loose from their original practical bearing upon education and were discussed on their own account; that is, as matters of philosophy as an independent branch of inquiry. But the fact that the stream of European philosophical thought arose as a theory of educational procedure remains an eloquent witness to the intimate connection of philosophy and…
John Dewey, Democracy and Education
Close in meaning to Educational research; the term itself is not named.
This is most immediately obvious in Germany, where the explicitly avowed aim of the higher education is to turn the student into an instrument for advancing scientific discovery. The German universities are proud of the number of young specialists whom they turn out every year,--not necessarily men of any original force of intellect, but men so trained to research that when their professor gives them an historical…
William James, Talks To Teachers On Psychology
Close in meaning to Educational research; the term itself is not named.
Related ideas
- Philosophy
- Academic discipline
- Interdisciplinarity
- Ethnography
- Learning
- Sociology
- Evidence
- Hypothesis
- Teaching
- Psychology
- Philosophy of education
- Historical method
- Statistics
- Science
- Scientific method
- Empirical evidence
- Theory
- University of Texas at Austin
- Qualitative research
- Causality
- Social research
- Quantitative research
- Bias
- Wiley (publisher)
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Philosophy of education.