Scientism and Education
Publication year: 2007
ISBN: 978-1-4020-6678-8
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This volume offers a critical examination of the growing pressure to apply scientific principles as a means to improve education. The authors trace the ideology of scientism to the early faith Auguste Comte placed in science and the scientific method as a panacea to all human problem solving.
Subject: Humanities, Social Science and Law, Education research, Epistemology, Ideology, Neo-liberalism, Philosophy of social science, education, educational research, epistemological problem, knowledge, learning, quality, reason, science, university
