scholarly journals Evidence Based Educational Policy and Practice: The Case of Applying the Educational Effectiveness Knowledge Base

2014 ◽  
pp. 83-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaap Scheerens
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Educational Policy ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Educational Effectiveness ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Educational Policy And Practice

scholarly journals The role of educational research in transforming educational policy and practice

2013 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-23
Author(s):  
Natasa Vujisic-Zivkovic
Keyword(s):  
Education Reform ◽  
Educational Policy ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Educational Policy And Practice

The paper discusses the role of educational research in transforming educational policy and practice. Our aim was to critically illuminate the possibilities, range and limitation soft he evidence-based concept of education reform. This concept implies an intensive re-examination of the epistemology of educational science, with the emphasis on studying the causal and consequential relations in education. It demands methodological rigour in educational research, culminating in the random sample experiment. It is also perceived that there is the problem of systematic dissemination and application of the obtained scientific findings in educational practice. On the other hand, the critics of this concept have observed that it is neo-positivist, mono-methodological, since it favors quantitative research, and as such insufficient for explaining and understanding educational phenomena and the contexts in which educational innovations are studied. At the same time, during the last decade, there has been another reconsideration of the role of scientific in forming of practitioners in their everyday work, as well as of the relation between research and the development of educational policy. Finally, philosophers of education again insist on the moral instead of on instrumental nature of educational practice. Theoretical analysis of the concept of evidence-based transformation of education has been supplemented by an analysis of social and institutional conditions in which the modern science of education develops.

Conservative Battles for Public Education within America's Culture Wars: poignant lessons for today from the red scare of the 1950s

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart J. Foster ◽  
O. L. Davis, Jr
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Educational Policy ◽  
Culture Wars ◽  
Red Scare ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Educational Policy And Practice ◽  
The 1950S

Historically public schools and public school teachers have been obvious targets for attacks by conservative critics. However, during the post World War II red scare, the rapid emergence of anti-communist sentiment and super-patriotic zeal dramatically increased their vulnerability. In many respects the arch conservatism of the 1950s has obvious parallels with political trends in American education this century. As in the 1950s, contemporary pressures by well-organised and powerful conservative groups, 'think tanks', politicians, and economic interests have been particularly successful in influencing educational policy and practice on a wide range of issues. Attention to the educational context of the 1950s, therefore, reasonably offers contemporary educators important historical insights into the ways in which socio-political forces profoundly shape and dramatically influence educational policy and practice.

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