The key question facing educational research today is not whether it can stand up to criteria of classical experimental design or not, but how to shape a critical, interventionist social science in response to difficult and unprecedented material conditions. Fortunately, then, most of these essays aren't narrowly "scientific", but put what might count as science "up for grabs".

Professor Alan Luke
Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice
National Institute of Education
Singapore

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