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Criticisms of educational research: key topics and levels of analysis

Abstract:: The article is an exploration of the meanings and worthiness of criticism as a significant phenomenon in the evolution of educational research during the 1990s. While drawing on an overview of the vast amount of documents expressing criticisms of educational research in the UK, western and eastern continental Europe and the USA, it summarises the findings of a study based on the analysis of some of the most influential texts that criticised educational research in the UK during the mid‐1990s: Hargreaves (1996), Tooley and Darby (1998), Hillage et al. (1998). An understanding of the targets, sources, solutions and actors that are characteristic of the recent criticisms of educational research is proposed, together with an exploration of the rhetorical devices employed in expressing criticism and of some of the philosophical themes that underpin the recent debates.

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Oancea, A. (2005). Criticisms of educational research: key topics and levels of analysis. British Educational Research Journal, 31(2), 157–183.

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Oancea, A. “Criticisms of Educational Research: Key Topics and Levels of Analysis.” British Educational Research Journal, vol. 31, no. 2, Wiley, 2005, pp. 157–83.

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Oancea, A. 2005. “Criticisms of Educational Research: Key Topics and Levels of Analysis.” British Educational Research Journal 31 (2): 157–83.
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Institution:: University of Oxford
Division:: Societies, Other & Subsidiary Companies
Department:: Kellogg College
Oxford college:: Kellogg College
Role:: Author

Publisher:: Wiley
Journal:: British Educational Research Journal More from this journal
Volume:: 31
Issue:: 2
Pages:: 157-183
Publication date:: 2005-04-01
Acceptance date:: 2004-05-27
DOI:: 10.1080/0141192052000340198
EISSN:: 1469-3518
ISSN:: 0141-1926

Keywords:: SBTMR
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Source identifiers:: 492220
Deposit date:: 2017-05-03

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Copyright holder:: British Educational Research Association
Copyright date:: 2005
Notes:: © 2005 British Educational Research Association. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Wiley at: https://doi.org/10.1080/0141192052000340198

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