Title: Understanding education : toward a reconstruction of educational inquiry /
Authors: Feinberg, Walter, 1937-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Year: 1983
Subjects: Education Research; Education
Contents: Foreword / Jonas F. Soltis -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Educational Studies and the Disciplines of Educational Understanding -- The Prevailing Research Traditions in Education: Contemporary Modes of Understanding Education -- The Empirical Tradition and Its Limits for Understanding Education -- Values and Empirical Research -- Educational Research and Classroom Knowledge: The Case of Behavioral Theory -- Empirical Research and the Goals of the Educational System -- The Philosophical Tradition and Its Limits for Educational Understanding -- History and the Interpretive Understanding of Education -- Education as Social Reproduction -- The Domain of Educational Understanding: Education as Social Reproduction -- The Bonding of Codes and Frames: The Case of Medical Knowledge -- Contradictions Within the Prevailing Knowledge Code -- Education and the Self-Formation of the Public.