Educational research in philosophy

Abstrak / Ringkasan

[FIRST PARAGRAPH] What makes the
Higher Education
Academy unique in
educational
development circles is its firm focus on
disciplinary differences. This is why it
has a network of 24 Subject Centres,
each with its own distinctive
perspective on helping academics to
improve the quality of their students’
learning. However, disciplines differ as
much in their methods of research as of
teaching, and at a time when the
spotlight is on the relationship between
research and teaching, we need to
consider the implications of different
research traditions for research into
teaching.


The concept of the scholarship of
teaching has become widely accepted,
and it demands that all university
teachers should be actively engaged in
research into teaching – at least into
the effectiveness of their own teaching.
However, it is unreasonable to expect
hard-pressed lecturers to learn an
entirely new and foreign research
methodology in order to fulfil this
expectation. The methods of
educational researchers are very
different from those of philosophers,
physicists, and practitioners of other
disciplines.

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