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The challenges facing educational systems, and those conducting research with the intent to improve them, are many. This essay though, is limited to two problems that cross many levels of education and bookend educational research. The first is the foundational input to the understanding and practice of education (and thus of educational research as well), namely, how we define the core purpose of general education. The second problem is concerned not with inputs, but the output and impact of our research—how it comes to be consumed (or more likely not consumed) by practitioners of the art of teaching.
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Myers, D.J. (2011). Reforming General Education and Diffusing Reform. In: Hallinan, M. (eds) Frontiers in Sociology of Education. Frontiers in Sociology and Social Research, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1576-9_15
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