Introduction. The improvement of education research : a complex, continuing quest / Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, Lee S. Shulman. I. Education research as a problem in the history and sociology of education. An auspicious moment for education research? / Ellen Condliffe Lagemann
Research and the purposes of education / David K. Cohen, Carol A. Barnes
Poles apart : reconciling the dichotomies in education research / Theodore R. Mitchell, Analee Haro
Needed : thoughtful research for thoughtful schools / Deborah W. Meier. II. Changing configurations in education and social research. Sociology and the study of education : continuity, discontinuity, and the individualist turn / Charles E. Bidwell
From society to school and back again : questions about learning in and for a world of complex organizations / Elisabeth S. Clemens
Understanding educational processes in an era of globalization : the view from anthropology and cultural studies / Kathleen Hall.
III. Education research as a vocation. Professing educational scholarship / Lee S. Shulman
The core, the canon, and the development of research skills : issues in the preparation of education researchers / Alan H. Schoenfeld
Discipline and disciplines in education research : elusive goals? / Shirley Brice Heath
Culture and commitment : challenges for the future training of education researchers / Vanessa Siddle Walker. IV. The organization and communication of education research. Preparing education practitioners to practice education research / Anna Neumann, Aaron M. Pallas, Penelope L. Peterson
The changing infrastructure of education research / Allan Collins
Research, reform, and aims in education : modes of action in search of each other / James G. Greeno ... [et al.]
New media communication forums for improving education research and practice / Roy D. Pea
Multiples of evidence, time, and perspective : revising the study of teaching and learning / Deborah Loewenberg Ball, Magdalene Lampert. Postscript : some reflections on education research / Jerome Bruner.
