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It takes as its point of departure two recent views on ‘the problem’ – one expressed by an educational journalist and one presented by the Australian Council of Deans of Education. It locates these within a larger frame of international debate about educational research and its problems and considers how these arise out of particular dispositions towards educational research and, by extension towards, education itself.  \nThe paper suggests that the different positions on the problem with educational research, and hence on the solution to the problem, fail to engage in the question of education itself as a problem of the present. It argues that this problem is produced through twin fantasies about education: a redemptive fantasy about the possibility and the imperative for education to solve problems of social disadvantage; and a disciplinary fantasy that faculties of education can do this by themselves. Through an examination of the ‘de-sciencing’ of education in the past decade or so, and its recent‘re-sciencing’, the authors conclude that, with all the problems that might be identified that pertain to educational research and to faculties of education, the most significant might well be a failure of research imagination. Overcoming this problem demands engagement with provocative ideas coming from outside traditional educational expertise.  \nThe Australian Educational Researcher, Volume 33, Number 2, August 2006 •43  \nERICA MCWILLIAM AND ALISON LEE  \nIntroduction  \nIn February 2005, an article appeared in The Australian newspaper, entitled ‘The Problem with Educational Research’ (Buckingham 2005, p.18) . The brevity of the article and the identification of educational research as having a singular ‘problem’, was enough to capture the attention of time-poor, long-term educational researchers, among whom the authors include ourselves. The problem, as Buckingham articulatesit, is that ‘educational research is often far from sound’. The reason she gives for this view is the current preference within education faculties for producing qualitative rather than, and at the expense of, quantitative research. The fact that only two percent of Australian Research Council grants targeted educational research in 2004 is given as evidence of its ‘poor reputation’. Most educational findings, Buckingham argues, are ‘based on case studies or small sample sizes’ and so are of dubious scientific value. The call she makes is for more ‘data-intense, statistically valid’research, which, she argues, though ‘expensive’, will make for more ‘solid’foundations for ‘evidence-based teaching’. Simply put, Buckingham argues for a restoration of ‘big numbers’ to its rightful place as the cornerstone of educational research.  \nAt the same time that Buckingham’s column appeared, the Australian Council of Deans of Education was preparing a submission to the Research Quality Framework Issues paper. Like Buckingham, the Deans acknowledge the low funding base of educational research but their take on this is very different from hers. They name a‘serious decline in educational research funding and effort’ brought about by ‘the combined effects of general under-resourcing of the area’ and ‘a fairly malevolent set of de facto research measures based solely on a limited theory of knowledge production’(ACDE 2005, p.12) .‘Educational research’, they claim, was ‘once a proud feature of Australian research’ but is ‘flagging under current policy’ (p.8) . This situation would be exacerbated, they assert, if any future measures of impact do not take into account the extent to which ‘action research project[s]…impact on school practice’, and the extent to which ‘a range of other productivities…impac","cbCaikVf6yBfropB","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikVf6yBfropB","pdf",127885,18,"English","# Abstract\n# Introduction","[{\"question\":\"What question does the paper focus on?\",\"answer\":\"It analyzes how “the problem with educational research” is represented and framed by different actors.\"},{\"question\":\"Which two recent views does the paper use as starting points?\",\"answer\":\"It draws on an educational journalist’s account and a view presented by the Australian Council of Deans of Education.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the paper’s main critique of positions on the problem?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that the debate fails to engage education itself as a problem of the present and is produced through two fantasies about what education can solve and who can solve it.\"}]","The Problem of ‘the Problem with Educational Research’ - read online free | PDF",1792077187,45]