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View article: Habermas, Honneth, Critical Theory, and Ideology Critique for Transformative Mixed Methods Research
Habermas, Honneth, Critical Theory, and Ideology Critique for Transformative Mixed Methods Research Open
This article sets a theoretical foundation to transformative mixed methods research that is rooted in the critical theory of Habermas and Honneth. This addresses Habermas’s knowledge-constitutive interests and communicative action for redr…
View article: A novel C-Band UAV-Radar for 3D characterisation of forest canopy backscatter profiles - Preliminary results
A novel C-Band UAV-Radar for 3D characterisation of forest canopy backscatter profiles - Preliminary results Open
This work reports on a novel C-band monostatic UAV-radar system deployed over two forested wetlands in arctic Sweden, near to the Abisko research station. A Videodrone X4S drone acted as the carrying body, allowing programmable and repeata…
View article: Soluble metallogels including antimicrobial silver metallogels
Soluble metallogels including antimicrobial silver metallogels Open
A product includes a metallogel material having metal ions dispersed in an assembly having an organic compound. A method includes combining a metal salt, an organic compound precursor, and a glyme for forming a metallogel material having m…
View article: Methods, understandings, and expressions of causality in educational research
Methods, understandings, and expressions of causality in educational research Open
The opening pages of Pearl and Mackenzie’s volume The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect (2018) herald their captivating romp through causality by referring to a “ladder of causation”...
View article: The scalpel model of educational research
The scalpel model of educational research Open
Many years ago, the late internationally renowned UK educationist, Harvey Goldstein, gave a thrilling keynote lecture on assessment. He calmly, politely, and with surgical skill, wielded his intell...
View article: The importance of the “so what” factor in educational research
The importance of the “so what” factor in educational research Open
When Oscar Wilde wrote that “the only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about”, he could hardly have envisaged the arrival on the scene of “impact” being judged by how many ci...
View article: Making “what works” work: the elusive research butterfly
Making “what works” work: the elusive research butterfly Open
Many and wide are the efforts to gain some purchase on “what works” in education and to make sure that research impacts on bringing improvements to educational practices and policies. How can resea...
View article: Many are the paths to understanding “what works”
Many are the paths to understanding “what works” Open
“Cheshire Cat,” Alice began, rather carefully. “Would you tell me, please, which way to go from here?” “That depends on where you want to go,” said the Cat.The Cheshire Cat’s grinning reply in Lewi...
View article: P-24 A critical exploration of the questions asked and discussed by palliative care patients
P-24 A critical exploration of the questions asked and discussed by palliative care patients Open
Background The use of an activity with palliative care patients called ‘Blether’ gave us the opportunity to consider the questions asked by them in the day therapy setting. The questions proffered and discussed were collected over 20 month…
View article: Discourses of diversity in evidence-based educational research and policy making
Discourses of diversity in evidence-based educational research and policy making Open
In a disquieting phrase in his volume Foucault, Power and Education, Ball (2013) comments that “we do not speak discourses, discourses speak us. Discourses produce the objects about which they spea...
View article: Educational research in an era of alternative facts
Educational research in an era of alternative facts Open
We live in a would-be post-truth era in which runaway relativism has witnessed the US White House Advisor Kellyanne Conway giving us the amusing but astonishing and widely ridiculed concept of “alt...
View article: Jaap Dronkers (1945–2016)
Jaap Dronkers (1945–2016) Open
It is with great sadness that we report the unexpected passing of one of our Editorial Board members, Professor Jaap Dronkers, on March 30, 2016. On Easter Sunday he was struck by a CVA, from which...