Books in the Educational Research series

The book explores factors that have made educational researchers dependent on statistics, and examines their use in such areas as the maltreatment of children, European citizenship, well-being and happiness, illegal migrants, and university expansion.

This provocative book brings together social problems, philosophy and history of education in a unique way. The editors use 'Educationalization' to identify the trend toward thinking about education as the focal point for addressing larger human problems.

The book discusses if funding is a factor in the shift of efforts of researchers from pure or basic research to more applied research, and if it encourages the development of large research teams, to the detriment of individual scholars.

The book discusses if funding is a factor in the shift of efforts of researchers from pure or basic research to more applied research, and if it encourages the development of large research teams, to the detriment of individual scholars.

This collection addresses concepts and theories of change, contexts and functions of reform discourses, and fields of change in educational research.

It records the intellectual struggles of a group of scholars coming to grips with changes in knowledge production and research communication. Together these authors demonstrate how philosophical and historical approaches are relevant to the practice and theory of education.

In this book distinguished philosophers and historians of education from six countries focus on the problematical nature of the search for 'what works' in educational contexts, in practice as well as in theory.

This provocative book brings together social problems, philosophy and history of education in a unique way. The editors use 'Educationalization' to identify the trend toward thinking about education as the focal point for addressing larger human problems.

It records the intellectual struggles of a group of scholars coming to grips with changes in knowledge production and research communication. Together these authors demonstrate how philosophical and historical approaches are relevant to the practice and theory of education.

This collection discusses and illustrates how educational research is affected by the economic, institutional and physical contingencies of its time, and in our time even increasingly is driven by them.

This collection discusses and illustrates how educational research is affected by the economic, institutional and physical contingencies of its time, and in our time even increasingly is driven by them.

This collection addresses concepts and theories of change, contexts and functions of reform discourses, and fields of change in educational research.