The use and misuse of taxpayers' money : publicly-funded educational research
Document Type
Journal article
Source Publication
British Educational Research Journal
Publication Date
8-1-2011
Volume
37
Issue
4
First Page
631
Last Page
655
Abstract
How should educational research be contracted? And is there anything wrong with the way that public funding of educational research is currently administered? We endeavour to answer these questions by appeal to the work of two of the most prominent philosophers of science of the twentieth century, namely Popper and Kuhn. Although their normative views of science are radically different, we show that they would nonetheless agree on a number of key rules concerning the extent to which scientific practice should be influenced ‘from the outside’. We then show that these rules are often broken in the way that research is publicly funded in the UK.
DOI
10.1080/01411926.2010.487933
Print ISSN
01411926
E-ISSN
14693518
Publisher Statement
Copyright © 2011 British Educational Research Association
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Language
English
Recommended Citation
Rowbottom, D. P., & Aiston, A. J. (2011). The use and misuse of taxpayers' money: Publicly-funded educational research. British Educational Research Journal, 37(4), 631-655. doi: 10.1080/01411926.2010.487933