Educational research in the 21st century: challenges and opportunities for scientific effectiveness
Keywords:
Investigación educativa, retos y oportunidades, educación, aprendizaje, conocimiento científico, efectividad científica, educational research, challenges, opportunities, education, learning, scientific effectivenessAbstract
Resumen
A través de décadas, la investigación educativa ha sido objeto de mucho debate sobre cuál debe ser el propósito en el desarrollo del conocimiento científico en el campo de la educación. El propósito de este trabajo es presentar los antecedentes históricos de la disciplina de la investigación educativa: enfoques, objetivos y estrategias para la investigación en el campo de la educación. Del mismo modo, se presentan los desafíos y oportunidades de la investigación educativa. Los desafíos de la investigación educativa se identifican en las siguientes áreas: la naturaleza política de la educación; El problema de la definición de la investigación educativa como ciencia y la dislocación entre la investigación educativa y la práctica de la educación. Las oportunidades pueden situarse en el contexto de las siguientes áreas: consenso sobre el conocimiento de la educación conducente a un paradigma hacia la alineación, utilidad del conocimiento en la práctica de la profesión para establecer su efectividad científica e investigación de las políticas educativas.
Abstract
Through decades, educational research has been the subject of much debate over what should be the purpose in the development of scientific knowledge in the field of education. The purpose of this paper is to present a historical background on the discipline of educational research: approaches, goals and strategies for research in the area of education. Similarly, the challenges and opportunities of educational research are presented. The challenges of educational research are identified in the following areas: the political nature of education; the problem of definition of educational research as a science and the dislocation between educational research and practice of education. Opportunities can be placed in the context of the following areas: consensus on the knowledge of education leading to a paradigm towards alignment, the utility of knowledge in the practice of the profession to establish their scientific effectiveness and research of education policies.
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