Receptivity Curves: Educational Research and the Flow of Ideas
Receptivity Curves: Educational Research and the Flow of Ideas
Chapter 6 builds on the ideas developed in Chapter 5 by considering the timing of intellectual exchanges. The idea of an intellectual delay is specified by mapping out “receptivity curves,” that trace the timing of attention to research in particular disciplines. This concept is put into action by considering the case of research and scholarship moving into and out of the field of education. While critics of educational scholarship abound, especially in schools of education, this evidence presented suggests that educational research is quite responsive to the latest developments in the liberal arts disciplines. In other words, excessive delay is not characteristic of exchanges between education scholarship and research originating in other fields.
Keywords: growth of knowledge, reception of knowledge, citation, diffusion, education research, Jean Piaget, James S. Coleman, Pierre Bourdieu, Gary Becker
Chicago Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs, and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us.
