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DISTORTIONS IN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH: A LATTICE OF CONSTRAINTS IN THE 1980S

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Dumont, Florent
Lecomte, Conrad

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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/2114
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http://mje.mcgill.ca/article/view/7575
Abstract
There is a disabling avalanche of scientific production by which most students of the behavioral sciences have been overtaken. Large amounts of it are seen to be useless or serving predominantly non-scientific ends. As this realization has taken hold, disenchantment with psychology-based research and the disseminators of its results has grown. To understand this, several phenomena are reviewed: (a) the functional autonomy of research paradigms and their assumptive underpinnings, (b) the failure to discard them when their dysfunction interferes with inquiry directed to solving pressing social problems, and (c) the intersection of politics, various funding-agency policies, and the reward structures woven into publication and research networks that create a lattice of constraints to research. The effect of these conditions is to promote inconsequential and uncoordinated research of a molecular and fragmented kind, a plethora of studies that the human mind cannot accommodate, and a principle of decay in the edifice of the behavioral sciences. The need is asserted to combat the sources of disorder and entropy in the self-defeating research effort of contemporary academia, and some suggestions to this end are proferred. RÉSUMÉ L'étudiant des sciences béhaviorales risque actuellement d'être enseveli sous l'avalanche de la production scientifique, dont une bonne part est perçue comme n'ayant aucune utilité ou visant surtout des fins étrangères à la science. A mesure que l'on se rendait compte de ce phénomène, le désenchantement qu'inspiraient la recherche à caractère psychologique et ceux qui en assurent la dissémination allait en augmentant. Pour comprendre ce désenchantement, les auteurs ont examiné plusieurs phénomènes: a) l'autonomie fonctionnelle des modèles de recherche et les hypothèses qui les sous-tendent; b) l'incapacité de s'en défaire lorsque leurs insuffisances entravent la recherche visant à résoudre des problèmes sociaux pressants; c) l'entrelacement de la politique, des politiques des organismes de financement et des structures d'encouragement dans les résaux de la recherche et de l'éducation, qui tisse tout un filet d'entraves à la recherche. Cet état de choses a pour effet de favoriser la réalisation de recherches absurdes et mal coordonnées, de travaux moléculaires et fragmentés, d'une pléthore d'études que l'esprit humain rejette, et l'action d'un agent de désagrégation dans l'édifice des sciences béhaviorales. Les auteurs affirment qu'il est nécessaire de lutter contre les sources du désordre et de l'entropie dans lesquels les chercheurs universitaires contemporains déploient leurs efforts, et proposent quelques suggestions a cette fin.
Date
1984-09-01
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http://mje.mcgill.ca/article/view/7575
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