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?

Elliot Green, https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2016/05/12/what-are-the-most-cited-publications-in-the-social-sciences-according-to-google-scholar/

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"?