For education : towards critical educational inquiry

Summary: In this text, Carr provides a justification for reconstructing educational theory and research as a form of critical inquiry. In doing this, he confronts such philosophical questions as: what is educational theory?; what is an educational practice?; and how are theory and practice related?

Record details

ISBN: 0335191878
ISBN: 9780335191871
ISBN: 033519186X
ISBN: 9780335191864
Physical Description: print
xiv, 145 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher: Buckingham [England] ; Bristol, PA : Open University Press, 1995.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Papers previously published in various journals between 1980 and 1989.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-143) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Prologue: Theorizing educational practice / Stephen Kemmis -- Introduction: Becoming an educational philosopher -- 1. The gap between theory and practice -- 2. Theories of theory and practice -- 3. Adopting an educational philosophy -- 4. What is an educational practice? -- 5. Can educational research be scientific? -- 6. Philosophy, values and an educational science -- 7. Whatever happened to action research? -- 8. The idea of an educational science -- 9. Epilogue: Confronting the postmodernist challenge.