(İstanbul Kültür Üniversitesi / Eğitim Fakültesi, 2015-12-01) Şimşek, Hasan; Şimşek, Hasan; Hacıfazlıoğlu, Özge
Educational research is found to be problematic by some prominent education scholars. Major weaknesses of the field are supposed to be stemming from seven primary sources: The scientific, academic and disciplinary standing of education as a field of study; being somewhat an extension of other more established disciplines leading to mixed identities in the field; easy infiltration to the field by other disciplines and researchers; ambiguous standing of school as an institution in the society that creates a rather elusive context for solid theory and research; the field’s oversensitivity to larger external forces such as economic and political transformations; the concept of science in the eyes of policy-makers and funders that dictate certain forms of knowledge production, that is usually positivist; profile of practitioners and prestige of profession in education that is gender, pay and socio-economic structure of the profession. At the end, major proposals are presented to get the educational research out of this problematic status.
