Improving Education
Subtitle: Realist Approaches to Method and Research (Cassell Education)
Contributors: Joanna Swann (Editor); John Pratt (Editor)
Publisher: Cassell; Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Published: September 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780304705535
Subjects: Social research & statistics; Educational Research; Education; Education / Teaching; Educational Policy & Reform; Research; Case studies; Educational change; Philosophy; Popper, Karl Raimund,; Sir,
Description: "Improving Education: Realist Approaches to Method and Research provides a constructive discussion of the philosophical and practical issues involved in improving education. Its treatment of philosophy is both original and accessible. It provides a clear analysis and evaluation of empiricism, postmodernism, fallibilism and realism and, in particular, highlights the usefulness in educational contexts of the philosophy of Karl Popper."--Jacket.