| 书目名称 | Scientism and Education | | 副标题 | Empirical Research a | | 编辑 | Emery J. Hyslop-Margison,M. Ayaz Naseem | | 视频video | | | 概述 | An accessible and trenchant critique of current research practice in education.Offers an exposé of the ideological reasons behind empirical research in education.Proposes alternative practices to stre | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | We presently live in an era dominated by scientism, an ideology that believes that science (and its rationalist foundation in modern epistemology) has an undeniable primacy over all other ways of seeing and understanding life and the world, including more humanistic, mythical, spiritual, and artistic interpretations. In being critical of scientism as I am, I am not against science per se: modern science and its ways of understanding and knowing the world are valuable, and we should be grateful for them. But it is the hegemony of the habits of mind that manifest pervasively in education that privilege science education, career, and research over other modes and branches of learning and knowing that I have problems with. I have too often witnessed parents overtly or subtly discouraging their children from following artistic or humanistic aspirations and pushing them for training and careers in Science, Math, Business, and Technology. In this society we say in a thousand and one ways that money, security, power, and ultimately fulfillment reside in these disciplines and not in the Arts, Humanities, and Philosophy. We valorize scientists, and even when they speak on subjects outside th | | 出版日期 | Book 2007 | | 关键词 | Education research; Epistemology; Ideology; Neo-liberalism; Philosophy of social science; education; educa | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6678-8 | | isbn_softcover | 978-90-481-7697-7 | | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4020-6678-8 | | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007 |
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