Date: Thursday, Oct 30th 2014
Venue: Scarfe Room 310
Time: 4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
Title: The Medicalized Paradigm of Contemporary Empirical Research and Its Effects on Education Policy & School Reform
Speaker: Dr. Daniel Tröhler, University of Luxembourg
Abstract:
This paper argues that educational research today is subjected to a medicalized paradigm of social reality. It reconstructs, how the catchwords of this paradigm (evidence-based, monitoring, intervention studies) arouse and how they translated into the educational field, and it analyzes, how this paradigm deprives policy from professional experience, common sense, and political deliberation.