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Educational Methodologies: Implications for Course Goals, Objectives, and Contents

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This chapter discusses the implications of the first three chapters with respect to the course goals, objectives, and contents. For this purpose, this chapter brings major aspects of the first three chapters to the forefront, and elaborates on their connections and implications for the way educational methodologies are applied.

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  1. 1.

    For this literature see Ardalan (2003a, 2003b, 2006, 2008, 2013, 2015), Barnes et al. (1994), Barrow and White (1993), Barrow and Woods (1989), Blake et al. (2002), Brosio (1998), Burrell and Morgan (1979), Cahn (1996), Cahn (2009), Carr (2003), Chambliss (1996), Christensen and Garvin (1991), Cromer (1997), Curren (2003, 2007), Dooley and Skinner (1977), Ellis et al. (1991), Erskine et al. (2003), Freedman (1996), Gragg (1954), Gutek (2000a, 2000b, 2003), Hancock (1999), Hare and Portelli (2001), Hickman and Alexander (1998), Kimball and Orrill (1995), Larochelle et al. (1998), Marples (1999), Mauffette-Leenders et al. (2007), McLaren (1998), Morgan (1983, 1985), Noddings (2016), Orrill (1999), Ozmon (2011), Philosophy of Education Society (2003), Popkewitz and Fendler (1999), Power (1995), Reynolds (1978), Rocha (2014), Rorty (1998), Sadovnik et al. (2000), Schrag (1995), Siegel (2012), Talisse and Hester (2002), and Winch and Gingell (1999). This chapter is based on Ardalan (2008), Erskine et al. (2003), and Mauffette-Leenders et al. (2007).

  2. 2.

    The difference between “educational method” and “educational methodology” should be kept in mind. The former refers to a tool, whereas the latter signifies an approach, an orientation, and a way of thinking about how to generate and apply respective educational methods.

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Ardalan, K. (2018). Educational Methodologies: Implications for Course Goals, Objectives, and Contents. In: Case Method and Pluralist Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72071-5_4

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