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the main objective of this study was to examine the dominant paradigms on special education from the perspective of the sociology of science, to achieve this goal, used from the method of analytical - adaptive method. with this explanation that because of impact of dominated scientific paradigms on researchers, theories and scientific developments in the field identifying the major paradigms is...

Rupert Maclean (Australia) Director, Section for Secondary Education at UNESCO, Paris, since April 2000, prior to which he was Chief of the Asia-Pacific Centre of Educational Innovation for Development (ACEID), UNESCO PROAP, Bangkok. Before joining UNESCO in 1992 he was for two years the UNESCO Chief Technical Advisor in Myanmar for a UNDP-funded project to strengthen and upgrade teacher educat...

sociology of medical education is an area of sociology that could well link the two fields of medical sciences and social sciences together. sociologists believe that the scope of medical science deals with problems and realities much graeter than medical techniques and practices, of which sociology of medical education, described as one of the effective institutions of society as well as medic...

This research investigates how knowledge and identity are specialized within the field of design, particularly focusing on engineering, architecture, digital media and fashion. In this paper, we present a Bersteinian approach to the development of the research’s languages of description. Methodological implications are discussed through the lessons we have learned in the development of research...

It is widely accepted that policy-makers (in Nepal and elsewhere) can learn valuable lessons from the way other countries run their health and social services. We highlight some of the specific contributions the discipline of sociology can make to cross-national comparative research in the public health field. Sociologists call attention to often unnoticed social and cultural factors that influ...