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Thema
Erziehungswissenschaft, gesellschaftliche
Praxen einer Disziplin |
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Armin Gretler
Educational research in Switzerland
since World War II as reflected in its institutions and its
themes from recent history to some present issues and some perspectives
for the near future |
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In
the institutional development of educational research in Switzerland
since World War II, five important phenomena are identified:
1) the spectacular increase in the number of research institutions
between 1965 and 1975 mainly due to the then emerging interest
of politicians in educational research (in this place, the accent
is put not on university institutions, but on the new research
and development units within public administration); 2) the
creation of partially market-oriented research institutions
within university departments in the nineties; 3) the rapidly
growing importance of small and very small private educational
R&D-enterprises in the nineties; 4) the restructuring linked
to New Public Management of several educational R&D-institutions
within cantonal public administration, and 5) the creation of
a few institutions enhancing the identity of educational research
and the cooperation between research, politics, administration
and teaching.
The identification of
research themes over the last fifty years poses some methodological
problems. It seems that there is a rather stable «courant
normal» mainly in psycho-pedagogical research and research
in didactics; in addition, there are a few themes such as
the contribution of education to economic growth and international
competitivity, and curriculum research which have been important
at the beginning as well as at the end of the observed period.
From recent history, the article finally goes over to some
present issues and some perspectives for the near future.
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