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Tobin, Joseph – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2007
In the USA there is a contemporary discourse of crisis about the state of education and a parallel discourse that lays a large portion of the blame onto the poor quality of educational research. The solution offered is "scientific research." This article presents critiques of the core assumptions of the scientific research as secure argument.…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Educational Change, Educational Research, Research Problems
Tobin, Joseph – International Journal of Research and Method in Education, 2005
The metaphor of scaling up is the wrong one to use for describing and prescribing educational change. Many of the strategies being employed to achieve scaling up are counter-productive: they conceive of practitioners as delivery agents or consumers, rather than as co-constructors of change. An approach to educational innovation based on the…
Descriptors: Training, Scaling, Figurative Language, Educational Change