Educational Research: An Unorthodox Introduction

Content: Prologue: The orthodoxies of educational research - 1: Theories, fashions and the need for pragmatism - 2: Making education better - 3: 'What works' is not enough - 4: The practice of education - 5: configurations of educational research - 6: Education, measurement and democracy - 7: Knowledge reconsidered - 8: The political economy of academic publishing - Epilogue: too much research?