Educational Explanations. Christopher Winch

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      5  Foreword

      6  Preface

      7  1 Introduction: What Is the Question?

      8  2 A Criterial Conception of Truth and Objectivity: Its Relevance to Educational Research

      9  3 Why Empirical Educational Research Needs to Be Taken Seriously

      10  4 The Concept of an Educational Explanation and an Account of What Explanatory Adequacy Should Look Like

      11  5 How Good Is Empirical Research – Disaster or Success?

      12  6 Could Empirical Research-Based Knowledge Be Cumulative?

      13  7 Converging Explanations: Quantitative and Qualitative Methods and How They Are Related

      14  8 Intervention Studies, Experimental Methods and Evidence-Based Policy

      15  9 Case Study 1: Bernsteinian Sociolinguistics

      16  10 Case Study 2: The Comparative Study of Vocational Education

      17  11 Case Study 3: School Effectiveness and Improvement Research

      18  12 Case Study 4: Research on the Teaching of Reading Debate and on Dyslexia

      19  13 Educational Faddism and How to (Possibly) Avoid It

      20  14 How Philosophical and Empirical Research Can Work Together

      21  15 Prospects for Empirical Educational Research and Its Future Relevance to Policy and Practice

      22  References

      23  Index

      24  End User License Agreement

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      1 Chapter 6Figure 1.6 The Bernstein Sociolinguistic Research Programme.

      2 Chapter 11Figure 1 Distribution of contextual value-added scores...

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      1  Cover

      2  Series page

      3  Title page

      4  Copyright

      5 Table of Contents

      6  Foreword

      7  Preface

      8  Begin Reading

      9  References

      10  Index

      11  End User License Agreement

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