{"title":"An Alternative Approach to Science Education Research: Drawing from Philosophical Analysis to Examine Practice","authors":"D. A. Roberts, T. Russell","doi":"10.2307/1179275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1179275","url":null,"abstract":"Typical research paradigms in science education are becoming increasingly tired and tiresome. Perhaps the same could be said about other curriculum subspecializations (e.g., English education, mathematics education, social studies education), though it is beyond the scope of the present paper to examine this possibility. The subspecialization approach to curriculum research and graduate instruction has a comparatively long history, nevertheless; and it could prove interesting to examine the extent to which typical research paradigms in each subspecialization have yielded illuminating and exciting results. So, while this paper is specifically about science education, it could also be of interest to those concerned with other curriculum subspecializations, as well as those concerned about the general state of affairs in curriculum studies. In the paper we describe an alternative approach to research in science education-one which seems to have considerable promise. To establish a context for its description, we characterize typical approaches to research in this area and examine some recent critical commentary about them. Then we briefly describe several studies which illustrate the alternative approach, and present a single study in detail as an example.","PeriodicalId":273582,"journal":{"name":"Curriculum Theory Network","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115533397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Developing Remedial “Process” Curricula for the Inner City High School—A Rationale and Methodology","authors":"R. Case","doi":"10.2307/1179218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1179218","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":273582,"journal":{"name":"Curriculum Theory Network","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129936859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Materials and Methods of Implementing Curricula: A Swedish Model.","authors":"Urban Dahllöf","doi":"10.2307/1179317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1179317","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":273582,"journal":{"name":"Curriculum Theory Network","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125700948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reform Implementation Studies as a Basis for Curriculum Theory: Three Swedish Approaches","authors":"Urban Dahllöf, U. Lundgren, Margareta Siöö","doi":"10.2307/1179170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1179170","url":null,"abstract":"A curriculum reform can be seen as a case for comparative educational research in which the general environment and its value systems outside school are kept constant. It can also become a case study where the actual function of a school system in relation to its own goals may be studied from a fresh approach, without the layers of routine that otherwise may hide the crucial points in the interaction between the different parts of the system. A general model for implementation programs and systematic follow-up studies has recently been discussed in CTN (Dahll6f, 1970b). The illustrations from the secondary school reform in Sweden used in that article stem from a highly centralized national system. It has, however, to be borne in mind that the country is small and that many regional and","PeriodicalId":273582,"journal":{"name":"Curriculum Theory Network","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128254650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Curriculum Field in Formation: A Review of the Twenty-Sixth Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education","authors":"D. Walker","doi":"10.2307/1179265","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1179265","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":273582,"journal":{"name":"Curriculum Theory Network","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127016183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A System for Analyzing Social Science Curricula","authors":"W. A. W. join, Irving Morrissett","doi":"10.2307/1179249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1179249","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":273582,"journal":{"name":"Curriculum Theory Network","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131995031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Mythology of Art Education","authors":"E. Eisner","doi":"10.1080/00784931.1974.11075765","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00784931.1974.11075765","url":null,"abstract":"There are seven myths that seem to pervade a good deal of thought about art education. In this paper I will try to identify each of these seven myths, try to state the rationale for each as forcefully and as clearly as I can, and proceed to examine it critically. Then I will indicate what I think the rejection of each myth implies for educational practice in the field of art education. In examining these myths, indeed even in identifying them, I am of course employing my own values and beliefs concerning art education. These values and beliefs, too, are susceptible to examination. It is through tough-minded analysis of existing beliefs, including one's own, that we can become clearer about what we are up to professionally.","PeriodicalId":273582,"journal":{"name":"Curriculum Theory Network","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131301626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Curriculum Materials","authors":"D. Fraser","doi":"10.2307/1179251","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1179251","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":273582,"journal":{"name":"Curriculum Theory Network","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134131027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Use of Construct Validation Procedures in Curriculum Research.","authors":"G. Posner","doi":"10.2307/1179345","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1179345","url":null,"abstract":"Researchers and theorists in curriculum continually deal with constructs. However, the concept of construct validity, while employed in the social sciences and particularly in psychology, has not found its way into curriculum research to any great degree. This article explores the applicability of construct validation procedures to curriculum research in the hope of stimulating new research directions. In order to accomplish this purpose the general notion of construct validity is first explicated. This treatment is followed by a brief account of how construct validity procedures have been used in psychology. Possible uses of construct validity in curriculum are then suggested. Finally, an existing curriculum research study utilizing the concept of construct validity is presented as an example of the kinds of study that are being advocated.","PeriodicalId":273582,"journal":{"name":"Curriculum Theory Network","volume":"119 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114055205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}