Educational Research, the National Agenda, and Educational Reform: A History

by Johanningmeier, Erwin V.

• ISBN13: 9781593117313
• ISBN10: 1593117310
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-01-30
• Publisher: Information Age Pub Inc

Table of Contents

Framing the Problem
The Progressives, Public Education, and Educational Research	p. 3
Controversies Over the Origins of Educational Research	p. 29
Defining Status and Privilege in Educational Research	p. 53
Origins and Originating Myths
Origins of Public Education and Educational Research: The Common School	p. 89
Education as a Conscious Business: Herbart and the Herbartians	p. 123
Darwinism in the United States	p. 153
Psychologists and Testers
Child Study, G. Stanley Hall, Arnold Gesell, and Lewis M. Terman	p. 177
Educational Efficiency and Tests: Daniel Starch and Stuart A. Courtis	p. 215
The Laws of Learning: The Legacy of Edward L. Thorndike	p. 249
Institutionalization of the Progressive Agenda
The Mental Hyiene Movement: Psychiatry, Rockefeller, Philanthropy, and the Promotion of a Medical Model in Educational Research	p. 271
Nature-Nurture Controversies: Institutionalizing Intelligence as a Variable in Educational Research	p. 299
Cultural Lag: The Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial and Educational Research	p. 325
The Post-world War II Era
Educational Reform and Educational Research in the Post-World War II Era	p. 359
The Achievement Gap: The Coleman Report and its Legacy in No Child Left Behind	p. 389
The History of Education as Educational Research: The National Agenda and a Discipline	p. 413
References	p. 433
Index	p. 465
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