Math Education Research Doesn't Exist? Response to Schremm

Some subscribers to MathEdCC might be interested in a recent post "Math Education Research Doesn't Exist? Response to Schremmer" [Hake (2012)]. The abstract reads:

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ABSTRACT: MathEdCC's Alain Schremmer at <http://bit.ly/VNUvPV> opined that: (a) research in mathematics education does not exist; (b) physics cannot be taught as lecture only; (c) Hake (2002b) at <http://bit.ly/VtXvAV> disagreed with Greeno (2002a) at <http://bit.ly/T64H49> because Hake is unfamiliar with math education and thinks its problems are similar to those in physics education.

I argue in opposition to the above that:

(a) Research in mathematics education *does* exist, see e.g., the 18 entries preceded by double asterisks ** in the REFERENCE list of my *complete* post at <http://bit.ly/U7dJi3>.

(b) Physics *has been* taught essentially as lecture only (where *taught* does not mean *learned*), witness the fourteen "traditional" (T) courses (N = 2084) in Hake (1998a) at <http://bit.ly/9484DG>.

(c) I disagreed with Greeno, *not* because of my unfamiliarity math education, but because Greeno denounced as "glibly superficial and badly unknowing about the nature of science" the six guiding principles suggested in "Scientific Research in Education" at <http://bit.ly/VjrQaV>, as underlying all education research; whereas I think those principles *are* consistent with the nature of science as I have experienced it and as has been explained by Ziman (2002) at <http://bit.ly/VtdoHR>.
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Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
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REFERENCES [URL shortened by <http://bit.ly/> and accessed on 06 Nov 2012.]

Burke, E. 1790. "Reflections on the Revolution in France." Available as a 2006 edition by Dover; Amazon.com information at <http://amzn.to/c4wbfS>. Online at <http://bit.ly/WwBMOQ> thanks to McMaster University, See also the Wikipedia entry at <http://bit.ly/hMaGfn>.

Hake, R.R. 2012. "Math Education Research Doesn't Exist? Response to Schremmer," online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at <http://bit.ly/U7dJi3>. Post of 6 Nov 2012 11:12:48-0800 to AERA-L and Net-Gold. The abstract and link to the complete post are being transmitted to several discussion lists and are also on my blog "Hake'sEdStuff" at <http://bit.ly/YTQzk0> with a provision for comments.