Authors:Nigel Blake, Paul Smeyers, Richard Smith, Paul Standi
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: education, standards, nihilism, moral
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2001-01-26
List price: $53.95
ISBN-10: 0750710179
ISBN-13: 9780750710176

This book addresses concerns about educational and moral standards in a world increasingly characterised by nihilism. On the one hand there is widespread anxiety that standards are falling; on the other, new machinery of accountability and inspection to show that they are not. The authors in this book state that we cannot avoid nihilism if we are simply laissez-faire about values, neither can we reduce them to standards of performance, nor must we return to traditional values. They state that we need to create a new set of values based on a critical assessment of contemporary practice in the l

Authors:Nigel Blake, Paul Smeyers, Richard Smith, Paul Standi
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: education, standards, nihilism, moral
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2001-01-29
List price: $190.00
ISBN-10: 0750710160
ISBN-13: 9780750710169

This book addresses concerns about educational and moral standards in a world increasingly characterised by nihilism. On the one hand there is widespread anxiety that standards are falling; on the other, new machinery of accountability and inspection to show that they are not. The authors in this book state that we cannot avoid nihilism if we are simply laissez-faire about values, neither can we reduce them to standards of performance, nor must we return to traditional values. They state that we need to create a new set of values based on a critical assessment of contemporary practice in the l

Authors:Nigel Blake, Paul Smeyers, Richard D. Smith, Paul Sta
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: education, philosophy, guide, blackwell
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2002-08-15
List price: $46.95
ISBN-10: 0631221190
ISBN-13: 9780631221197

In this important survey, an international group of leading philosophers chart the development of philosophy of education in the twentieth century and point to signficant questions for its future.Presents a definitive introduction to the core areas of philosophy of education. Contains 20 newly-commissioned articles, all of which are written by internationally distinguished scholars. Each chapter reviews a problem, examines the current state of the discipline with respect to the topic, and discusses possible futures of the field. Provides a solid foundation for further study.

Authors:Paul Smeyers, Marc Depaepe,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: work, doesn, works, research, educational
Number of Pages: 195
Published: 2006-11-29
List price: $119.00
ISBN-10: 140205307X
ISBN-13: 9781402053078

Education and educational research, according to the current fashion, are supposed to be concerned with ‘what works’, to the exclusion of all other considerations. All over the world, and particularly in the English-speaking countries, governments look for means of improving ‘student achievement’ as measured by standardized test scores. Although such improvements are often to be welcomed, they do not answer all significant questions about what constitutes good education. Also the research on which they are based is not the only legitimate way to do educational resea

Authors:Paul Smeyers, Marc Depaepe,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: reasonings, arguments, proofs, research, educational
Number of Pages: 199
Published: 2009-10-30
List price: $139.00
ISBN-10: 9048132487
ISBN-13: 9789048132485

This book focuses on the language of educational research as well as on the language of education. It conceives both as social practices and investigates how rhetoric plays a part in the complex process of historically situated argumentation. The book aims to answer such questions as: ‘What is the nature of the arguments and the kinds of sources one relies on?’ and ‘What kind of reasoning is offered to convince practitioners?’ Taking postmodern criticism seriously, the contributors argue that the scholar or researcher cannot indulge in relativism or be satisfied with a description of p

Authors:David Bridges, Paul Smeyers, Richard Smith,
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: evidence, education, policy, philosophy, journal, basis, based
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2009-06-22
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1405194111
ISBN-13: 9781405194112

This book raises important questions about the extent to which policy can be derived from research and about the kind of evidence which should inform policy. Challenges contemporary orthodoxies and offers constructive alternatives Critiques the narrower conceptions of evidence which might inform policy advanced by the ‘what works’ movement Investigates the logical gaps between what can be shown by research and the wider political requirements of policy Examines the different educational research traditions e.g. large population studies, individual case studies, p

Authors:Tony Buxton, Paul Chapman, Paul G Chapman, Paul Templ
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: performance, economic, britain
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 1997-12-16
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 041514874X
ISBN-13: 9780415148740

This new and substantially revised edition of Britain’s Economic Performance provides a unique assessment of the current state of the supply-side of the economy. Written by a team of highly experienced, policy oriented applied economists, this volume will be a valuable source of reference, analysis and guidance for students and policy-makers.