Issues in education research
Subtitle: problems and possibilities
By: [edited by] Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, Lee S. Shulman.
Contributors: Lagemann, Ellen Condliffe, 1945-; Shulman, Lee S.; National Academy of Education. Commission on the Improvement of Education Research.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: The Jossey-Bass education series
Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publishers
Published: 1999
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 424
Subjects: Education -- Research -- United States -- Congresses; Educational change -- United States -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Description: More than twenty prominent scholars examine education research and discuss how it is changing and where it needs to go. They highlight some of the major trends that have galvanized the field, including removing research from the laboratory to the school site, qualitative research as a widely validated method, and the increasing interdisciplinary aspect of educational research.
Notes: "Commissioned and reviewed by an NAE study group, the Commission on the Improvement of Education Research (CIER)"--P. xiii.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. The improvement of education research : a complex, continuing quest / Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, Lee S. Shulman.  I. Education research as a problem in the history and sociology of education. An auspicious moment for education research? / Ellen Condliffe Lagemann; title: Research and the purposes of education / David K. Cohen, Carol A. Barnes; title: Poles apart : reconciling the dichotomies in education research / Theodore R. Mitchell, Analee Haro; title: Needed : thoughtful research for thoughtful schools / Deborah W. Meier.  II. Changing configurations in education and social research. Sociology and the study of education : continuity, discontinuity, and the individualist turn / Charles E. Bidwell; title: From society to school and back again : questions about learning in and for a world of complex organizations / Elisabeth S. Clemens; title: Understanding educational processes in an era of globalization : the view from anthropology and cultural studies / Kathleen Hall. III. Education research as a vocation. Professing educational scholarship / Lee S. Shulman; title: The core, the canon, and the development of research skills : issues in the preparation of education researchers / Alan H. Schoenfeld; title: Discipline and disciplines in education research : elusive goals? / Shirley Brice Heath; title: Culture and commitment : challenges for the future training of education researchers / Vanessa Siddle Walker.  IV. The organization and communication of education research. Preparing education practitioners to practice education research / Anna Neumann, Aaron M. Pallas, Penelope L. Peterson; title: The changing infrastructure of education research / Allan Collins; title: Research, reform, and aims in education : modes of action in search of each other / James G. Greeno ... [et al.]; title: New media communication forums for improving education research and practice / Roy D. Pea; title: Multiples of evidence, time, and perspective : revising the study of teaching and learning / Deborah Loewenberg Ball, Magdalene Lampert.  Postscript : some reflections on education research / Jerome Bruner.