At 11:13 AM 5/1/01 -0600, Diane Hodges wrote:
>yes, really, can the design/control approach EVER successfully translate
>towards social situations? isn't "social science" an oxymoron?
>>
One problem that design experiment as a methodology is attempting to solve
is that education has been too often a matter design and control and little
science. Changes constantly occur in education without the coherence
offered by theory. Science is meant here not as a what education research
typically does: a superficial imitation of methods such as
experimental/control group, anova analysis etc., but as an endeavor of
collective inquiry, occuring in expansive cycles, and involving the complex
coordination of theories and evidence.
Bill Barowy, Associate Professor,
Lesley University, 29 Everett Street, Cambridge, MA 02138-2790
Phone: 617-349-8168 / Fax: 617-349-8169
http://www.lesley.edu/faculty/wbarowy/Barowy.html
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