David ScottEducation, Epistemology and Critical Realism
David Scott is Professor of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment at the Institute of Education, University of London. He has previously worked at the universities of Warwick, Southampton and Lincoln. His most recent book is Critical Essays on Major Curriculum Theorists published by Routledge.
@contents: 1. Introduction and Initial Thoughts 2. Critical Realism and
Empirical Research Methods in Education 3. Resolving the
Quantitative-Qualitative Divide 4. Epistemic Relativism, Ontological
Realism, and the Possibility of Judgemental Rationality 5. Educational
Judgements: Epistemic, Parasitic and External Criteria 6. Judgemental
Rationality 7. Empirical Indicators and Causal Narratives 8. Structure and
Agency - Key Ontological Concepts 9. Educational Critique 10. Arbitrary and
Non-Arbitrary Knowledge
