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(2014) A companion to research in education, Dordrecht, Springer.
What makes educational research scientific? And should we be worried whether it is? This chapter approaches these questions from a philosophical perspective, while also introducing some relevant work from twentieth-century philosophy of science. It discusses scientific method, confirmation, the distinction between theory and observation, the aim of science, and the relative merits of qualitative and quantitative approaches.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6809-3_18
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Rowbottom, D. P. (2014)., Educational research as science?, in A. D. reid, E. Paul hart & M. A. Peters (eds.), A companion to research in education, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 145-153.
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