Research in Education
ABOUT THE COORDINATOR
Dr. Pawilen earned his Master of Arts in Education and Doctor of Philosophy in Education, major in Curriculum Studies at the University of the Philippines-Diliman. He also completed his Master of Education in Curriculum Development and his postdoctoral study on Gifted Education in Science at Ehime University in Japan. He served as an associate professor of Curriculum Studies at UP-Diliman and as a member of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) Technical Committee for Educational Leadership and Foundations. Currently, he teaches at the College of Human Ecology (CHE) and is the director of the Office for Institutional Development in Higher Education (OIDHE), UP-Los Baños. Greg Tabios Pawilen
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CONTENTS
Contents Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .vii Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ix UNIT I Foundations of Educational Research: Understanding Its Significance, Processes, and Evolution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x Lesson 1: What Is Educational Research? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Lesson 2 : Importance of Research in Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Lesson 3: Historical Development of Educational Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 UNIT II Comparing and Applying Educational Research Paradigms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Lesson 1: Positivism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Lesson 2: Interpretivism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Lesson 3: CriticalTheory................................ 57 Lesson 4: Postmodernism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 UNIT III Principles and Processes of Research in Education. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Lesson 1: Overview of Research Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Lesson 2: Ethics of Doing Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Lesson 3: Decision Parameters in Choosing a Research Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
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