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Is the National Research Council Committee’s Report on Scientific Research in Education Scientific? On Trusting the Manifesto

Thomas S. Popkewitz
- 01 Feb 2004 - 
- Vol. 10, Iss: 1, pp 62-78
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The National Research Council Committee's report, in part a response to congressional legislation, pursues an outline for the foundations of an education science necessary for policy making, and argues that they have little to do with science and its relation to policy may not be as fruitful as the committee believes.
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The National Research Council Committee’s report, in part a response to congressional legislation, pursues an outline for the foundations of an education science necessary for policy making. This article focuses on these foundations and argues that they have little to do with science and its relation to policy may not be as fruitful as the committee believes. The so-called bedrocks of science are based on, at best, weak premises and an unrigorous understanding of the sociology, history, and philosophy of science. There is a nostalgia for a simple and ordered universe of science that never was. The resulting models of science embody a technological sublime that weaves together the procedures of administration and engineering with utopian visions and discourses of progress ordered by the expansion of its expertise. Finally, although the resulting framework was to relieve educational research of its “awful” reputation, the report may reinstitute and reinstantiate those very practices.

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Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge

Karl Popper
TL;DR: A collection of classic essays written throughout Popper's illustrious career, expounding and defending his 'fallibilist' theory of knowledge and scientific discovery.
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TL;DR: Toulmin offers a radically new interpretation of Western intellectual history that humanizes our conception of modernity and reconciles the precision of scientific theory with the reality of human experience as discussed by the authors.