Martin Levit and the philosophy of educational research

✍ Scribed by Philip Smith

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1969
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 488 KB
• Volume: 6
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0039-3746
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00372694

✦ Synopsis

From his article on "Scientific Method, Social Systems, and Edueational Research," 1 I gather that Professor Levit's motivation for writing was a desire to improve the doing of edueational research. This .is certainly a worthy aspiration, but it is doubtful if that sort of ,article will contribute much to 'its realization. This is so not merely because exhortation and suggestions of a highly general character are ustmlly not very effective, but because doing philosophy of seience (even at its best) is only a very indirect way of improving the doing of science.