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Klappentext Challenges in Educational Research considers the quality and usefulness of educational research from various perspectives, using as a starting point two recent key reports: the John Gray ESCR enquiry: The Future of Education Research: Learning as the Centre, and The Strategic Review of Educational Research by David Hargreaves and Michael Beveridge.Influential academics and well-known researchers expand the argument to all areas of educational research, and far beyond the reports themselves. Zusammenfassung Challenges for Educational Research Inhaltsverzeichnis Educational Research - Jean Rudduck The Prospect of Change... PART ONE An Episode in the Development of Educational Research - John Gray The Report of th ESRC Working Party - Various Authors The Future of Educational Research - Stewart Ranson Learning at the Centre Responses Some Significant Developments? - Caroline Gipps The Silence of the Shadows - David Hamilton Educational Research and the ESRC Research, Dissent and the Reinstatement of Theory - David Bridges Subverting the Dominant Paradigm - Michael Bassey PART TWO Improving the Quality of Educational Research - Michael Beveridge A New Partnership of Stakeholders and a National Strategy for Research in Education - David H Hargreaves Responses A Response from outside the University System - Seamus Hegarty Misleading Prognoses? Educational Research in Action - Roger Murphy An Ecological Perspective on Educational Research - Peter Hannon A Forum for Researchers and Users of Research - Scottish Style - Sally Brown and Wynne Harlen Overviews Educational Research Past, Present and Future - Rosemary Deem A Feminist Social Science Perspective The Usefulness of Educational Research - Donald McIntyre An Agenda for Consideration and Action