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ERIC Number: EJ470082
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1993
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-1911
Policy Orientated Research: The Seduction of Science and the Teacher Researcher.
Avis, James
Educational Review, v45 n3 p195-204 1993
The mythical purity of research and scientific method leads to limited practice. Teacher researchers should question the universality of findings and recognize their position as researchers and as classed, raced, and gendered subjects, moving the focus away from policymakers and toward a wider constituency. (SK)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Sociology, Ethnography, Policy Formation, Research Methodology, Social Sciences, Teacher Researchers, Theory Practice Relationship
Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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