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A FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM FOR EDUCATIONAL RESEARCHES: CONFUSING THE ANALYTIC WITH THE EMPIRICAL

Kieran Egan ; Sveučilište Simon Fraser, Burnaby, Kanada Pedagoški fakultet


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Abstract

Herbert Spencer, writing inthe 1850s, suggested that the application of the methods of sci ence toeducational phenomena would enable education to progress as have otherareas where the methods of science have been brought into play. Manyargue that the complexity of educational phenomena prevent our beingable to achieve equivalent success to that of, say, physics. In thisarticle another reason is given; that in framing educational researchquestions we very often confuse an a lyt ic elements-which do notrequire research and which guarantee positive results-with genuinelyempirical issues—which are commonly not generalizable. The confusionmakes our re sults commonly fruitless.

Keywords

scientific methods; empirical questions; analytic elements; confounding of analytical and empirical in pedagogy

Hrčak ID:

139357

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/139357

Publication date:

22.12.2004.

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