The Taxonomy of Educational Objectives

An Ethnographic Perspective on an Occupational Culture

Bibliographic Data

ID11070342
AuthorsMillard Clements (New York University, corresponding author)
Year1979
Volume7
Issue3
Pages47-63
Publication date1979-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueTheory & Research in Social Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0093-3104 • E-ISSN: 2163-1654
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00933104.1979.10506061
OpenAlexW1980958603
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited11

The basic question that motivates the present ethnographic exploration of The Taxonomy is this: What can we learn about the educational culture that produced this social artificat? As with any ethnographie investigation, this research is concerned with empirical questions about the document itself. What can we learn from its language? Its description and accounts of its affairs? The matter it calls to our attention and explains? The matter that it ignores and avoids? What is the taken for granted world of Tax-onomic Culture? This study is not a book review nor is it a debate about the logical, scientific or philosophical adequacy of the Tax-onomy. It is an attempt to look at a residual document of a familiar culture as we have learned to look at the songs, stories, and myths of far away peoples. Looking at ourselves ethnographically encourages an “objectivity,” a “neutrality” about beliefs and customs that is not our usual experience

Epistemology · Ethnography · Neutrality · Objectivity (philosophy · Social science · Sociology · Taxonomy (biology · Anthropology · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Philosophy

Tools

Open DOISci-Hub