Contested Terrain: A History of Education Research in the United States, 1890–1990

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Title

Contested Terrain: A History of Education Research in the United States, 1890–1990

Abstract/Description

During the last 100 years, the history of education research has been marked by continuing contests among different groups, especially scholars of education, scholars in other fields and disciplines, school administrators, and teachers. To make sense of these contests, it is useful to understand them from a “system-of- professions” perspective in which professionalization is seen as an ongoing competition to secure jurisdiction in particular domains of human service. Viewed this way, the history of education research suggests that the development of wide support for education research will depend on surmounting the jurisdictional challenges that have heretofore precluded sustained agreement about the methods and focus of the field.

Author/creator

Lagemann, Ellen Condliffe

Date

1997

In publication

Educational Researcher

Volume

26

Issue

9

Pages

5-17

Resource type

en Background/Context

Medium

en Print

Background/context type

en Historical

IRE Approach/Concept

Education Research

Language

en

ISSN

0013-189X

DOI

10.3102/0013189X026009005

URL

Official Publisher's Webpage (SAGE Journals)

Citation

Lagemann, E. C. (1997). Contested Terrain: A History of Education Research in the United States, 1890–1990. Educational Researcher, 26(9), 5–17. https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X026009005

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Introducing Improvement Research in Education

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