Policy Research in Educational Settings (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780335202959)

This volume argues for independent, critical research on education policy in the context of attacks on the quality and usefulness of educational research in general. It takes issue with the argument, promoted by government departments and agencies that education policy research should be limited to work that assists policy makers. Against this position, the book advocates independent, critical research that scrutinizes policy in relation to its consequences for equality and social justice. It argues that practitioners and academic researchers should form a research community that develops its own knowledge base from which so-called evidence-based policy-making in education may be assessed and challenged.

Author: Jennifer Ozga, Ozga
ISBN-10: 0335202950
ISBN-13: 9780335202959
Publisher: Open University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/01/1999
Pages: 162
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.38h x 6.66w x 0.40d