On the sidelines of what works: scientifically based indifference

IF 1.5 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

International Journal of Research & Method in Education Pub Date : 2021-08-15 DOI:10.1080/1743727X.2021.1966620

Jennifer R. Wolgemuth, Travis M. Marn, Sujay V. Sabnis

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Abstract

ABSTRACT A team of systematic reviewers successfully completed a government-commissioned review of ‘what works to improve post-school outcomes for youth with disabilities’ in 2012. Despite its success, interviews with 10 review team members revealed dissatisfaction with the process and indifference to its outcomes. The purpose of our analysis was to examine how the systematic review process itself led to review team members’ feelings of indifference, resignation, and pessimism. Drawing on the writings of Henry Giroux, Gert Biesta, and Hanna Arendt that warn of the death of democracy and the rise of totalitarianism, we explored how the systematic review certification process, examinations, rules, and structures deadened democratic deliberation and critique necessary, we argue, to conducting good educational science. We end with a call for systematic reviews in education whose researchers, products, and processes remain ethically oriented to keeping democracy alive.

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在有效的方法之外:基于科学的冷漠

2012年，一个系统评审团队成功完成了一项政府委托的关于“如何改善残疾青少年的毕业后成就”的评审。尽管取得了成功，但对10名评审小组成员的采访显示，他们对评审过程不满意，对评审结果漠不关心。我们分析的目的是检查系统评审过程本身是如何导致评审团队成员的冷漠、放弃和悲观情绪的。借鉴亨利·吉鲁(Henry Giroux)、格特·比斯塔(Gert Biesta)和汉娜·阿伦特(Hanna Arendt)对民主死亡和极权主义崛起的警告，我们探讨了系统审查认证过程、考试、规则和结构如何扼杀了民主审议和批评，我们认为，这是开展良好教育科学所必需的。最后，我们呼吁对教育进行系统的审查，其研究人员、产品和过程仍然以保持民主的道德为导向。

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International Journal of Research & Method in Education EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-

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4.70

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5.00%

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期刊介绍： The International Journal of Research & Method in Education is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal that draws contributions from a wide community of international researchers. Contributions are expected to develop and further international discourse in educational research with a particular focus on method and methodological issues. The journal welcomes papers engaging with methods from within a qualitative or quantitative framework, or from frameworks which cut across and or challenge this duality. Papers should not solely focus on the practice of education; there must be a contribution to methodology. International Journal of Research & Method in Education is committed to publishing scholarly research that discusses conceptual, theoretical and methodological issues, provides evidence, support for or informed critique of unusual or new methodologies within educational research and provides innovative, new perspectives and examinations of key research findings. The journal’s enthusiasm to foster debate is also recognised in a keenness to include engaged, thought-provoking response papers to previously published articles. The journal is also interested in papers that discuss issues in the teaching of research methods for educational researchers. Contributors to International Journal of Research & Method in Education should take care to communicate their findings or arguments in a succinct, accessible manner to an international readership of researchers, policy-makers and practitioners from a range of disciplines including but not limited to philosophy, sociology, economics, psychology, and history of education. The Co-Editors welcome suggested topics for future Special Issues. Initial ideas should be discussed by email with the Co-Editors before a formal proposal is submitted for consideration.