Educational research/ R.C. Mishra. -- New Delhi: A.P.H. Publishing Corporation, 2005. 291 p.; 21 cm.
Internet and Global Information Infrastructure (GII) development in the world changes the main paradigms in education and research and raises new tasks caused by mankind survive information revolution and start building information society which is defined as post-technological society. Education and research become conductors and promoters of new technologies and area where new approaches and new social imperatives are forming now. New aspects of education and research in networked information environment and IT usage are based on approaching assistance tools to the real process of abstract thought process. New approaches in education and training should increase the assistance-to-contribute effect, i.e., education and research organisations should become the knowledge based organisations. Changing approaches in professional education should utilise the learning process for creating information and knowledge base for teaching next generation of students and researchers. The emerging paradigms and issues in educational research are comprehensively discussed in the present volume. It will be of great use to students, researchers, practitioners and educational managers.