Titlebook: Educational Research - the Ethics and Aesthetics of Statistics; Paul Smeyers,Marc Depaepe Book 2010 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2

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Representation or Hard Evidence? The Use of Statistics in Education and Educational Research,the so-called scientisation of educational research, the professionalisation and academisation of the training of education(al)ists, the supremacy of meritocratic values in modern societies and the constant need to legitimate these by ‘objective’ and ‘neutral’ research. Unlike his colleague Dewey, w

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The Good, the Beautiful and the Literate: Making Statistics Accessible for Action,information? After all, from the drawing one cannot conclude that the elusive number . plays a part in it. We do not want to focus on ontological matters here. Rather, our interest is in the ethics and aesthetics of the matter (along with epistemology concerns when they become relevant). However, th

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Statistics and the Inference to the Best Explanation: Living Without Complexity?,on (or should one say promise) that descriptive statistics carry with them is the possibility of control, particularly when an explanation is offered (by this we mean the control of the evolution of dependent variables in terms of the independent variables which have led to the distributions that ar

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Book 2010sion of how the quest for more and better statistics finds its voice in policy initiatives that become slogans, and how public opinion polls are used to rationalise political decision-making. Can a more limited and modest use be made of statistics which does not deflect attention away from education

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Paul Smeyers,Marc DepaepeThis book is provocative and original as it challenges prevailing ideas about the ‘application’ of philosophy and history of education Demonstrates in a unique way how philosophical and historical app