Are All Causal Claims Positivistic? A Reply to Francis Schrag.

Eisner, Elliot W.

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Publication Date: 1992

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Are All Causal Claims Positivistic? A Reply to Francis Schrag.

Eisner, Elliot W.

Educational Researcher, v21 n5 p8-9 Jun-Jul 1992

Educational researchers are not engaged in discovering mechanistic universal truths sought by positivists or tidy prescriptions about what works. Instead, they provide guidelines and interpretive material to liberate the teacher's intelligence so that the teacher can use whatever ability he or she can achieve. (SLD)

Descriptors: Causal Models, Educational Improvement, Educational Philosophy, Educational Research, Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education, Hypothesis Testing, Research Design, Research Methodology, Researchers, Teacher Role, Theory Practice Relationship, Validity

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