An Elusive Science: The Troubling History of Education Research - Softcover

Lagemann, Ellen Condliffe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226467732 ISBN 13: 9780226467733

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2002

Synopsis

Since its beginnings at the start of the 20th century, educational scholarship has been a marginal field, criticized by public policy makers and relegated to the fringes of academe. An Elusive Science explains why, providing a critical history of the traditions, conflicts, and institutions that have shaped the study of education over the past century.

"[C]andid and incisive. . . . A stark yet enlightening look at American education."—Library Journal

"[A]n account of the search, over the past hundred or so years, to try and discover how educational research might provide reliable prescriptions for the improvement of education. Through extensive use of contemporary reference material, [Lagemann] shows that the search for ways of producing high-quality research has been, in effect, a search for secure disciplinary foundations."—Dylan William, Times Higher Education Supplement

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Since its beginnings at the start of the twentieth century, educational scholarship has been a marginal field, criticized by public policy makers and relegated to the fringes of academe. An Elusive Science explains why, providing a critical history of the traditions, conflicts, and institutions that have shaped the study of education over the past century.

About the Author

Ellen Condliffe Lagemann is the president of the Spencer Foundation and a professor of history and education at New York University.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0226467732
• ISBN 13: 9780226467733
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 302