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Free at Last?: Breaking the Chains That Bind Education Research
- The Review of Higher Education
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 10, Number 2, Winter 1986
- pp. 129-134
- 10.1353/rhe.1986.0001
- Article
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Higher-education research, still in its adolescence, suffers two flaws: it seldom addresses major issues and its research methods are too narrow. The scientific method of research is not appropriate for the study of individuals or social institutions. Higher-education researchers need to develop a multi-faceted research strategy which is sensitive to the many ties higher education has with society’s other institutions.