Educational Research - the Ethics and Aesthetics of Statistics
Statistics are everywhere. Their power and their undoubted efficacy in many areas have given rise to faith in measurement and metrics. More of them will tell us all that we need to know. Their use carries with it a number of presuppositions: that reality can be satisfactorily represented and that it...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands,
2010.
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| Series: | Educational Research ;
5 |
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| Online Access: | https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9873-3 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The lure of statistics for educational researchers
- 3. Dazzling statistics? On the university expansion in Flanders and the need for research into the history of education that transcends quantifying sociology
- 4. Child maltreatment in the last fifty years: The use of statistics
- 5. Constructing social unity and presenting clear predictions: The promise of public opinion pollsters to measure and to educate society
- 6. The science and art of the single case in educational research
- 7. To frame the unframable: Quantifying irregular migrants presence
- 8. European citizenship and evidence-based happiness
- 9. The persuasive power of figures and the aesthetics of the dirty backyards of statistics in educational research
- 10. The good, the beautiful and the literate: Making statistics accessible for action
- 11. Statistics and the interference to the best explanation. Living without complexity?- 12. Performativity, statistics and bloody words
- 13. A bubble for the spirit-level: Metricophilia, rhetoric and philosophy
- 14. Calling education to account
- Notes on Contributors
- Index.