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Criticisms of educational research: key topics and levels of analysis
Author(s) -
Oancea Alis
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
british educational research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.171
H-Index - 89
eISSN - 1469-3518
pISSN - 0141-1926
DOI - 10.1080/0141192052000340198
Subject(s) - criticism , educational research , sociology , rhetorical question , rhetorical criticism , epistemology , phenomenon , research methodology , social science , political science , law , linguistics , philosophy , population , demography
The article is an exploration of the meanings and worthiness of criticism as a significant phenomenon in the evolution of educational research during the 1990s. While drawing on an overview of the vast amount of documents expressing criticisms of educational research in the UK, western and eastern continental Europe and the USA, it summarises the findings of a study based on the analysis of some of the most influential texts that criticised educational research in the UK during the mid‐1990s: Hargreaves (1996), Tooley and Darby (1998), Hillage et al . (1998). An understanding of the targets, sources, solutions and actors that are characteristic of the recent criticisms of educational research is proposed, together with an exploration of the rhetorical devices employed in expressing criticism and of some of the philosophical themes that underpin the recent debates.