Theory and educational research toward critical social explanation /

• Main Author: Anyon, Jean.
• Other Authors: Dumas, Michael J.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Routledge, 2009.
• Series: Critical youth studies.
• Subjects: Educational sociology > Research.; Critical theory.; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Cultural. > Anthropology; POLITICAL SCIENCE > Cultural Policy. > Public Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.; Pädagogische Soziologie.; Kritische Theorie.; Electronic books.
• Online Access: ebrary; View fulltext via EzAccess; HathiTrust Digital Library Limited view (search only); MyiLibrary
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 206 p.)
• Format: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9780203894149 (ebook); 0203894146 (ebook); 9780415990417 (print); 0415990416 (print)

Throughout U.S. history, education policies, practices, and politics have been described and tested to yield empirical data, often with little attempt to place findings in a larger theoretical infrastructure that could provide them with increased explanatory, critical, or even liberatory power. This collection fills that void by taking the point of view that neither research nor theory alone is adequate to the task of social explanation. Instead, Jean Anyon and her collaborators argue that they imbricate and instantiate one another, forming and informing each other as the inquiry process unfol.