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Comments on Bulterman-Bos: Education Research as a Distributed Activity Across Universities

ELLEN CONDLIFFE LAGEMANN is a Bard Center Distinguished Fellow at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, 84 Alford Road, Great Barrington, MA 01230; lagemann{at}bard.edu. She is also the Charles Warren Professor of the History of American Education at Harvard University (on leave). Her research interests are the history of education in the 20th century and matters of contemporary education policy

In response to Bulterman-Bos (2008), this article discusses three kinds of research needed in education: problem-finding research, which helps frame good research questions; problem-solving research, which helps illuminate educational problems; and translational work, which transforms the findings of research into tools that practitioners and policy makers need. Clinical research is most important as a form of problem-finding study. Although it is best carried on in "ed schools," other kinds of education research are best done in other faculties. For this reason, education research should be a distributed activity, encouraged across all the faculties of research universities.

Key Words: professional development • research utilization • teacher knowledge

Educational Researcher, Vol. 37, No. 7, 424-428 (2008)
DOI: 10.3102/0013189X08325558


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