The Trouble With Origins: A Foucauldian Analysis of Scientifically Based Research in Education

• In Event: Genealogy and the Production of Subjects Across Cultural and Disciplinary Contexts

Abstract

Since scientifically based research (SBR) was written into federal legislation just over ten years ago, who gets to define science for education has emerged as one of the most significant questions confronting educational researchers. This paper demonstrates that SBR is a response to a manufactured problem that has no rational, scientific foundation on which to stand and cannot even meet its own criteria for sound science by examining the supposed “origin” of SBR—the contention that educational research was of poor quality.

Author

• Jessica Van Cleave, Mars Hill University