Educational research

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Educational research is defined with the German Education Council as an "investigation of the requirements and possibilities of educational processes in an institutional and social context". Educational research elaborates analytical findings that flow into the educational policy discussions and which serve primarily to further develop school and teaching practice.

Educational research content

Educational research systematically asks about the conditions under which education is created, can and should arise at all. Systematic educational research brings together qualitative and quantitative research results and offers an orientation framework for educational policy and practical school decisions.

Many associate the term “education” with the German framework and vocabulary. “Education” is used with a special meaning in German-speaking countries and must therefore be viewed in the context of German educational history. From this perspective, for example, it is not to be equated with English or French "education".

Critics object to the Education Council's definition that it is "oriented towards rational organization and planning". In fact, educational theory considerations find no room in this definition, although they belong to the field of educational research.

Lassnigg / Pechar (1996) grant educational research a wider spectrum than the German Education Council, but adopt its “rational” perspective. The following two elements are central to them:

  • "(1) Educational research exceeds the framework of discipline-oriented educational research and has a multi- or interdisciplinary character;
  • (2) Educational research goes beyond the descriptive-explanatory claim and also has a normative, application or problem-oriented character. This understanding of educational research is based on the idea that the research field of pedagogy and educational science is too narrow to provide a sufficient basis for the rational discussion of design and development problems in the educational system. "(Lassnigg / Pechar, 1996)

The table of contents of the handbook “Educational Research” ( Rudolf Tippelt ) shows that it is not limited to institutionalized education such as schools, vocational training or universities, but rather contains many aspects of non-institutionalized educational processes: for example, “lifelong learning” or self-education Children.

Interdisciplinarity

It is agreed that “educational research” has an interdisciplinary view of educational topics.

In addition to education and psychology, educational research also plays a role in sociology, economics and business administration as well as history and philosophy and can be viewed from the specific perspective of the disciplines mentioned. In addition, content from educational research in other sciences - such as B. political science, educational geography or educational sociology relevant.

The growing dominance of empirical educational research, which bases its claim to an "evidence-based" practice solely on large-scale studies with standardized instruments or experimental control group designs, is viewed increasingly critically.

Educational research institutions

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See also

literature

  • J. Bellmann, T. Müller (Ed.): Knowing what works. Critique of Evidence-Based Education. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2011.
  • H. Brügelmann: Measured schools - standardized students. On the risks and side effects of PISA, Hattie, VerA & Co. Beltz, Weinheim / Basel 2015.
  • K.-H. Dammer: Measured educational research. The history of science behind a neoliberal instrument of rule. Schneider Hohengehren, Baltmannsweiler 2015.
  • German Education Council: Recommendations of the Education Commission. On the reorganization of the upper secondary level. 38th meeting of the Education Commission, 13./14. February 1974 in Bonn. Stuttgart 1974.
  • Lorenz Lassnigg, Hans Pechar: Abstract: Educational research. Pedagogy CD-ROM. Schneider, Hohengehren 1996. Abstract: Educational research ( Memento from July 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (as of October 1, 2004)
  • Kerstin Lück: Evaluation methods in educational research. LISUM, Ludwigsfelde 2006.
  • H. Reinders, H. Ditton, C. Gräsel, B. Gniewosz: Textbook Empirical Educational Research. 2 volumes. VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2011.
  • Paul Röhrig: The educational theory approach in adult education. In: Rudolf Tippelt (Ed.): Handbook for adult education, further education. Leske + Budrich, Opladen 1999, pp. 193-209.
  • Sandra Schaffert, Bernhard Schmidt: Content and conception of "education research". bildungsforschung, 2004. ( bildungsforschung.org ( Memento of January 24, 2005 in the Internet Archive ))
  • Rudolf Tippelt: Introduction by the editor. In: ders. (Ed.): Handbuch Bildungsforschung. Leske + Budrich, Opladen 2002, pp. 9-20. (2nd edition, ibid. 2009, ISBN 978-3-531-15481-7 )
  • Heiner Rindermann: educational research. ( uni-magdeburg.de ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) PDF, 2003. As of October 1, 2004)
  • Elise Weber: Teachers' Migration Background: Resource or Obstacle? : an educational geography study. Dissertation. University of Freiburg, 2014. (freidok.uni-freiburg.de)

Web links

  • educational research . Interdisciplinary online journal of educational research http://bildungsforschung.org/
  • Educational research
  • Research instruments of the DIPF for empirical educational research in the field of computer-based testing.
  • Research data education The portal offers researchers qualitative and quantitative information on studies and projects in educational research, access to data and instruments for their own empirical research projects, information on data management (documentation, data protection, etc.) as well as secure and sustainable archiving of their own research data and research instruments.

Single receipts

  1. ^ German Education Council 1974, p. 16
  2. ↑ GEW, 2013, interview with Eckhard Klieme , DIPF archive link ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ cf. z. B. Röhrig, 1999, p. 208
  4. ↑ Handbuch Bildungsforschung 2009
  5. ↑ Schaffert / Schmid, 2004
  6. ↑ cf. Rindermann 2003
  7. ↑ Bellmann / Müller 2011; Brügelmann 2015, Dammer 2015