Table of Contents

List of contributors     7
Introduction   John Nisbet     9
Perspectives from different countries
Research impact on educational policy and practice in the USA   Douglas E. Mitchell     19
The organization and funding of educational research in England and Wales   William Taylor     42
Research and development in Australia since the 1960s   Peter W. Musgrave     68
Educational research in Canada   Edward A. Holdaway     79
The present state of educational research in France   Louis Legrand     95
Educational research in the Federal Republic of Germany   Wolfgang Mitter     103
Educational research in India: a review   H. S. Srivastava     113
Educational research in Latin America   Ernesto Schiefelbein     125
The Netherlands: educational research at a crossroads   Chris van Seventer     136
Educational research in New Zealand   Raymond S. Adams     146
Educational research in Poland after the Second World War   Czeslaw Kupisiewicz     156
The promotion of educational research and development - Scottish style   Sally Brown     165
Pipers and tunes: research, policy and practice in Singapore   Sim Wong Kooi     177
Educational research in Sweden: reform strategies and research policy   Inger Marklund     187
New Directions
Educational research: dissemination, participation, negotiation   Eric Hoyle     203
Educational research and educational change: the case of Sweden   Ulf P. Lundgren     218
Educational action-research   John Elliott     231
Curriculum development - from RDD to RED: review, evaluate, develop   Malcolm Skilbeck     251
Case study   Robert E. Stake     277
Bibliography and biographical notes
Bibliography   John D. Wilson     289
Biographical notes on contributors and editors     320
Index     325