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    Education, Research and Educology

    By James E Christensen

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    There is education and educology. Education is a process in which someone intentionally teaches and someone intentionally studies under guidance some content in some physical, social and cultural setting with a view that the student achieves some range of knowing and/or understanding. The four essential elements of education are teachers, students, content and setting. Education can be official or unofficial, effective or ineffective, and good or bad. Educology is the fund of knowledge (i.e. the set of true statements) about education. Educology is produced by research. Educological research is asking questions and finding necessary and sufficient evidence to warrant that answers offered for the questions are true. Warranted knowledge claims about education can be analytic, normative or empirical. Each type of knowledge claim requires its own discipline, i.e. rules of proof and techniques of adducing evidence. Educological research entails a mastery of the disciplines of analytic, normative and empirical inquiry. The first step in educological research is to pose a question about some relation among the essential elements of teachers, students, content and setting. The second step is to ask what kind of question is being posed, i.e. analytic, normative or empirical. The kind of question determines the discipline (the rules of proof and the procedures for collecting and analyzing evidence) that must be used in the research. Commonly used intellectual perspectives in conducting educological research are those of analytic philosophical educology, normative philosophical educology, historical educology, jurisprudential educology, scientific educology and praxiological educology. All six perspectives require the use of all three disciplines (analytic, normative and empirical). The domain of educological research is the relations among the four essential elements of education, viz. teachers, students, content and setting. The product of successful educological research is an extension of educology (i.e. an addition to the fund of knowledge about education). Educological theory provides the concepts (constructs) for identifying educational phenomena and the explanatory principles for connecting determinants with resultants among educational phenomena. Educological theory drives educological research by providing hypotheses which can be used to test the validity and truth value of educological theory.

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    PublisherJames E Christensen
    Release dateDec 30, 2016
    ISBN9781370840489
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    Education, Research and Educology
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    James E Christensen

    People call me Jim. I was born in southwest Missouri in the village of Stella (Newton County) in 1941. I finished high school at Carpinteria, California (1959) and completed my BA in liberal arts at the University of California, Berkeley (1963). I started my career in high school teaching in Kenya (1964-66) as part of a USAID funded foreign aid project (Teachers for East Africa). I continued with high school teaching in the Huntington Beach High School District, California (1966-69). During that time, I completed my MA in history at California State University, Long Beach. I decided to do further studies and completed a PhD in education (what I now call educology) at the University of California, Los Angeles (1969-72). From there, I pursued a career in university teaching in educology in the USA and Australia. Throughout my career, I have had an abiding interest in the questions of (1) what is education, (2) what is knowledge about education and (3) how can knowledge about education be used to take rational action in education to achieve worthwhile goals. In 1974, I emigrated from the USA to Australia, where I have since resided. I received Australian citizenship in 1988. I have lived in NSW (Wagga Wagga and Terrigal) and Queensland (Brisbane). I currently live on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, with my wife, the author, Maggie Christensen. I have three grown children and seven grandchildren, all living in Australia.

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