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Sponsored by the National Academy of Education's Commission on theImprovement of Education Research

It has been a decade since the National Academy of Education lastissued a review of education research. This new volume arrives at acritical time for our nation's schools. More than twenty prominentscholars provide an overview of the tensions, dilemmas, issues, andpossibilities that currently characterize education research. Theyexamine the state of education research, discuss how it is changingand where it needs to go, and reveal how the results ofresearch--whether good or bad--have become key drivers ofeducational policy and practice. This revelation raises importantquestions about standards for sound research and training forfuture researchers. Issues in Education Research is a valuablereference for the more than 40,000 college faculty members whostudy schooling and prepare tomorrow's teachers.

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• Introduction: The Improvement of Education Research
• A Complex, Continuing Quest
• Education Research as a Problem in the History and Sociology of Education
• An Auspicious Moment for Education Research?
• Research and Purposes of Education
• Poles Apart: Reconciling the Dichotomies of Education Research
• Needed: Thoughtful Research for Thoughtful Schools
• Changing Configurations in Education and Social Research
• Sociology and the Study of Education: Continuity, Discontinuity, and the Individualist Turn
• From Society to School and Back Again: Questions about Learning in and for a World of Complex Organizations
• Understanding Educational Processes in an Era of Globalization: The View from Anthropology and Cultural Studies
• Education Research as a Vocation
• Professing Educational Scholarship
• The Core, the Canon, and the Development of Research Skills: Issues in the Preparation of Education Researchers
• Discipline and Disciplines in Education Research_Elusive Goals?
• Culture and Commitment: Challenges for the Future Training of Education Researchers
• Preparing Education Practitioners to Practice Education Research
• the Organization and Communication of Education Research
• The Changing Infrastructure of Education Research
• Research, Reform, and Aims in Education: Modes of Action in Search of Each Other
• New Media Communications Forums for Improving Education Research and Practice
• Multiples of Evidence, Time, and Perspective: Revising the Study of Teaching and Learning
• Postscript: Some Reflections on Education Research

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CHOICE Review

The first group of papers reviews the historical and social roots of education research, while papers in three other groups examine the state of the field. Because education research borrows from many different academic disciplines, it serves the needs of practitioners, policy makers, and theory builders and is impacted by both increasing complexity and globalization. Later papers discuss difficulties in organizing and communicating education research, and in preparing new practitioners. Alan Schoenfeld's paper, "Education Research as a Vocation," points to the seemingly insurmountable problem of preparing researchers for work in an area that is fractured, diverse, immense, and always changing. What emerges in the end is not an integrated view of the state of this field, but a prismatic view. Fortunately hypermedia provides tools and patterns for handling such a view. Education research has to satisfy many often disparate demands. The contributors propose that education researchers employ multiple perspectives for inquiry, practice, discourse, and exchange. Perhaps at the metalevel, multiple perspectives also need to be employed when examining the field of education research, and this volume will certainly help in that effort. Graduate students and researchers. G. H. Alexander; Florida Gulf Coast University

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ELLEN CONDLIFFE LAGEMANN is professor of history and education and director of the Center for the Study of American Culture and Education at New York University. She is also president of the National Academy of Education. LEE S. SHULMAN is president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and professor of education at Stanford University. He is a past president of the National Academy of Education.