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Author Lagemann, Ellen Condliffe, 1945-

Title An elusive science : the troubling history of education research / Ellen Condliffe Lagemann
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2000

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Description xvii, 302 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Preface -- Introduction - A Slow Evolution: Education Becomes a Subject of University Research -- The Feminization of Teaching -- Conflict and Competition: High Schools, Normal Schools, Colleges, and Universities -- Part I - In Quest of Science: The Early Years of Education Research -- 1. Reluctant Allies: Psychologists Turn to Education -- G. Stanley Hall and the Child-Study Movement -- Clark University: "The Perfect Non-University of G. Stanley Hall" -- William James's Search for Vocation -- Psychology and Education at Harvard -- From Child Study to Child Hygiene -- 2. Specialization and Isolation: Education Research Becomes a Profession -- John Dewey's Youth and Early Career -- Dewey at the Laboratory School -- A Creative Community: The Social Sources of Dewey's Thought -- Edward L. Thorndike: "Conquering the New World of Pedagogy" -- Thorndike and Teachers College: A Reciprocal Relationship -- Dewey Displaced: Charles Hubbard Judd at the University of Chicago -- 3. Technologies of Influence: Testing and School Surveying -- The History and Philosophy of Education: From Center to Periphery -- Dignity amidst Disdain: Ellwood Patterson Cubberley and the First Generation of Scholars of School Administration -- Leonard P. Ayres, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the School Survey Movement -- The Cleveland Survey -- Lewis M. Terman and the Testing Movement -- Consensus and Community: A Science for School Administration -- Part II - Cacophony: Curriculum Study During the Interwar Years -- 4. Politics, Patronage, and Entrepreneurship: The Dynamics of Curriculum Change -- The Scientific Study of Society -- Child Interest -- The Teachers College "School System" -- Denver, Colorado, Teachers Study the Curriculum -- The Emergence of a New Specialization: Curriculum and Instruction -- Social Reconstructionism and Its Transformation -- 5. Developmental Perspectives: Critics Challenge Determinism in Education -- The Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Fund -- Nature versus Nurture : The Iowa Child Welfare Research Station -- The Progressive Education Association's Eight-Year Study -- Ralph W. Tyler: From Mental Measurement to Evaluation -- Human Development: The PEA's Commission on Curriculum and Human Relations -- Class, Caste, Mobility, and Cultural Bias: The University of Chicago Committee on Human Development -- The Educational Testing Service -- Part III - Excellence and Equity: The Continuing Problems and Potential of Education Research -- 6. Contested Terrain: The Disciplines versus Education -- The "New Math" -- The National Science Foundation -- Jerrold R. Zacharias and the Physical Sciences Study Committee -- The Process of Education : "St. Jerome's Gospel" -- From the History of Education to History and Education -- The Theory Movement in Educational Administration -- 7. Gaining Ground and Losing Support: The Federal Role in Education Research -- The Cooperative Research Program -- The National Assessment of Education Progress -- James S. Coleman and Equality of Educational Opportunity -- Title I Evaluation Studies -- The Nationa Institute of Education -- 8. Promoting Learning and Reform: New Directions in Education Research -- The Beginnngs of Cognitive Science -- The Center for Cognitive Studies at Harvard -- Cognition and Education -- Qualitative Methods and Interpretive Studies -- New Links between Research and Practice -- Systemic Research -- Conclusion: Toward the Reconfiguration of Educational Study -- Problems of Status, Reputation, and Isolation -- Problems of Governance and Regulation -- What's to Be Done? -- Notes -- Index
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-282) and index
Notes Donation
Subject Education -- Research -- United States -- History.
Education -- Research -- Social aspects -- United States.
LC no. 99086832
ISBN 0226467724 alkaline paper