The Untested Accusation: Principals, Research Knowledge, and Policy Making in Schools (Contemporary Studies in Social & Policy Issues in Education) - Hardcover

Biddle, Bruce J.; Saha, Lawrence J.

 
9781567506228: The Untested Accusation: Principals, Research Knowledge, and Policy Making in Schools (Contemporary Studies in Social & Policy Issues in Education)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1567506224 ISBN 13: 9781567506228
Verlag: Praeger, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

This book begins by reviewing the many accusations that have been hurled at educational research over the years-statements claiming that its methods are flawed, that it is devalued by users, and that it has very little impact on policy. Such claims concern issues of fact, but, surprisingly, studies have not appeared that would support or challenge them. The authors then describe such a study and report its findings. They provide a conceptual model for thinking about the problem, review prior materials that are related to their topic, and provide details of their study that was based on interviews with 120 school principals in the United States and Australia. These interviews generated quantitative as well as qualitative data, and substantive chapters of the book provide access to both-the former often summarized in the form of graphs and other visual materials, the latter presented as extensive quotes using principals' own words.

Major topics assessed during the study included: principals' reports about exposure to sources where research knowledge is portrayed; principals' attitudes concerning research knowledge and innovation in schools; the breadth and depth of research knowledge principals volunteer to talk about; principals' familiarity with preselected research topics; and the ways in which research knowledge is used in principals' schools. Findings from the study provide a direct challenge to repeated claims about the supposedly feckless character of educational research and its weak impact. In addition, they provide insights about conditions leading to greater use of research knowledge among principals and their schools, as well as how the use of that knowledge may vary depending on national context.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

BRUCE J. BIDDLE is Professor Emeritus of Psychology and of Sociology, the University of Missouri.

LAWRENCE J. SAHA is Reader in Sociology, the Australian National University.

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Verlag
Praeger
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1567506224
ISBN 13 
9781567506228
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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