HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

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A historical and philosophical evaluation of the field of Educational Research to understand its origins, evolutions, research philosophies, assumptions, paradigms, methodologies and controversies. Evaluation of the ontological, epistemological, axiologica l and methodological foundations in the quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods models use for Educational Research and its relations to currents concepts of research, reality, science, knowledge, the search for truth and the role of educational resear ch in society. Students are required to develop two theoretical paper: what is scientific research and to develop a theory defining education as an object for scientific inquiry..