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Educational Research |
So based on the statements above, the polling research can be categories in two aspects, in order to make it perfect namely:
1. Dissemination.
Dissemination means is to extend this the concept where it is not only the researcher and decision makers involved in the making research, but all elements of educational must be involved such as the teachers, the scientist of education, the lecturer, the parent, and the societies.
2. Utilization.
Utilization means the researcher should focus on what the benefit that will be got for the education to solve the educational problem, or what kind on the educational system suitable for education.
The Educational research-the demise of the position of the realist.
The realtion between education and science proved the problematic in many ways. The behaviorist that dominated by educational psychology in the 1060s, were vocally declaring the scientific nature of their research. Even much of their work had been challenged seriously in Brittan and United States, but it was not appears in Australia. But in doing this they took on the linear model that the science has been able to exploit since ninetieth century. This had led to a clear perception of public, the mass medias and politicians get the benefit of scientific research. While the education psychology didn’t make any advance in the 1995s, Gene Glass suggested the need to tie together research finding on specific topic by applying the statistical techniques that commonly employed by quantitative reseachers in analyzing their primary data, and it approached they called meta-analysis. (ERDC) agreed about his perception and tried to implement it in order to solve the educational masalah in Australia, But unfortunately this research was not running well, because this research this research locked into the traditional of universities and academic going their own way in conducting research, and the (ERDC) failed to delivered method this concept. Of course the behaviorist who used the psychology education still exist, in one school in Australia where than more half staff had qualification in educational psychology had no willing to teach the course, this was the reaction against the behaviorist.
However the psychology education was not exist forever, because on the 1980 the educational system focus on technology, gender, students out comes, the issues of environments, the policy studies etc. by the mid of 1980s, the reseacher focuses on the qualitative research in order to solve education problem.
The Ascendancy of the Qualitative Research.
There researcher in Australia agreed to determine the qualitative research as a method in inquiry the educational research, because the qualitative research is more objective than quantitative method, where qualitative method seems very nature. Where the education research is also focus on the students, the teacher, the environment, the beliefs and the perceptions of the parties concern so that this research in more objective and must be aware of all the values laden intrusion. in the other hand why qualitative research is appropriate in the inquiry educational research because of this method is really close to the cultural anthropology on which the ethnography is a part. So the qualitative research is more appropriate in conducting the education research than quantitative research in Australia.
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