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ERIC Number: EJ559073
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1997
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-189X
Contested Terrain: A History of Education Research in the United States, 1890-1990.
Lagemann, Ellen Condliffe
Educational Researcher, v26 n9 p5-17 Dec 1997
Explores the contests among different groups that have marked the conduct of educational research in the last 100 years, and suggests that the development of wide support for education research will depend on surmounting the jurisdictional challenges that have previously prevented sustained agreement about the methods and focus of the field. (Author/SLD)
Descriptors: Conflict, Educational History, Educational Research, Higher Education, Intellectual Disciplines, Research Methodology, United States History
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Note: Theme section on paradigm issues in historical research. Research supported by the Spencer Foundation.