Education as a Field
Shayan Doroudi
EDUC 222: Research Epistemologies and Methodologies
or What Do Philosophy and Politics Have to Do With Education Research?
What is a Paradigm?
Thomas Kuhn
Normal Science
Anomaly
Crisis!
Scientific Revolution
(operating under a particular paradigm)
(paradigm shift)
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What is a Paradigm?
What is a Paradigm?
Philosophy of Science
Thomas Kuhn
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Karl Popper
founded falsificationism
Imre Lakatos
Logical Positivists
(belief in verificationism)
Vienna Circle
1920s-1930s
Psychology of Science
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Jean Piaget
(founder of constructivism)
Jerome Bruner
Thomas Kuhn
April 2002
November 2002
Established the Institute of Education Sciences
Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002
Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002
What Works Clearinghouse
Erickson and Gutierez (2002)
Incommensurability
Science vs. Rigor
What role should the government play in mandating education research?
Do you agree with having a "porous buffer"?
EDUC 222 - Introduction
By Shayan Doroudi
