A Companion To Research In Education Research In Education

This Volume Offers A Unique Commentary On The Diverse Ways That Educational Inquiry Is Conceived, Designed And Critiqued. An International Team Of Scholars Examines Cross-cutting Themes Of How Research In Education Is Conceptualised, Characterised, Contextualised, Legitimated And Represented. Contributions Include Specially Commissioned Essays, Critical Commentaries, Vignettes, Dialogues And Cases. Each Section Discusses The Significance Of A Complex Terrain Of Ideas And Critiques That Can Inform Thinking And Practice In Educational Research. The Result Is A Thorough And Accessible Volume That Offers Fresh Insights Into The Perspectives And Challenges That Shape Diverse Genres Of Research In Education. Conceptualizing Research In Education -- Characterizing Research In Education -- Contextualizing Research In Education -- Legitimating Research In Education -- Representing Research In Education. Alan D. Reid, E. Paul Hart, Michael A. Peters, Editors. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Front Matter....Pages i-xxix Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Conceptualising Research in Education: Challenging Concepts and Conceptions....Pages 3-12 Traditions of Inquiry in Education: Engaging the Paradigms of Educational Research....Pages 13-25 Traditions of Inquiry: Should We Talk of Different Paradigms After All?....Pages 27-30 The Discipline(s) of Educational Research....Pages 31-39 Changing Scholarly Lives: Neoliberalism, Discipline(s) and Educational Research....Pages 41-45 The Problem with ‘Disciplines’ of Educational Research....Pages 47-50 The Pursuit of Truth(s) in Educational Research....Pages 51-60 Providing a Space to Enable Alteration in Educational Research....Pages 61-66 The Design(s) of Educational Research: Description and Interpretation....Pages 67-76 Relativism, Research and Social Responsibility: Some Remarks Inspired by Smeyers, Wittgenstein and Lyotard....Pages 77-81 “This Truth Truth That I Say to You, Well, You See It in Myself”: On Research As Education | As Philosophy | As a Way of Life....Pages 83-95 On Incompetency and Care for the Self as Conditions for Educational Laboratories....Pages 97-100 ‘Education Is the New Philosophy’, to Make a Metadisciplinary Claim for the Learning Sciences....Pages 101-115 Education, Science and the Lifeworld: A Response to “Education Is the New Philosophy”....Pages 117-120 Front Matter....Pages 121-121 Characterising Research in Education: Troubling Characteristics and Caricature....Pages 123-128 A Guide for the Perplexed: Scientific Educational Research, Methodolatry, and the Gold Versus Platinum Standards....Pages 129-139 Perplexing Times in Educational Research and the Prospects for a New Platinum Standard....Pages 141-143 Educational Research as Science?....Pages 145-153 Educational Research and the Light of Science....Pages 155-158 Educational Research as Science? A Critical Question....Pages 159-162 Front Matter....Pages 121-121 The Logic of Causal Investigations....Pages 163-171 The Logic of Causal Investigations and the Rhetoric and Pragmatics of Research Planning....Pages 173-175 Theory, Practice and the Philosophy of Educational Action Research in New Light....Pages 177-187 Immanent Transcendence in Educational Research....Pages 189-192 When Will I Be a Teacher?....Pages 193-195 The Role of Meta-analysis in Educational Research....Pages 197-207 Using Educational Research as a Resource for Continuous Improvement in Education: The Best Evidence Syntheses....Pages 209-213 Framing and Analysing Educational Research: A Recent History of Transactions from a Foucauldian Perspective....Pages 215-228 Using or Mobilizing Foucault? Choice Remarks on Eclecticism and Trends in Educational Research....Pages 229-232 On Understanding Power and the Subject of Educational Research....Pages 233-235 Front Matter....Pages 237-237 Contexts, Contextualism and Contextualizing Educational Research....Pages 239-246 Dialectics of Race Criticality: Studies in Racial Stratification and Education....Pages 247-257 What It Means To Be Critical: Beyond Rhetoric and Toward Action....Pages 259-261 On Being “Race Critical”....Pages 263-265 Untangling Theories and Hegemonic Projects in Researching Education and the Knowledge Economy....Pages 267-276 The Knowledge Economy as Global Assemblage....Pages 277-280 The Creativity Imperative: Implications for Education Research....Pages 281-287 Reimagining Creativity: Critically, Ethically, and Practically....Pages 289-292 The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: Creativity as the Next Colonial Turn....Pages 293-296 Education and the Creative Economy: Not Just a Question of Ends-in-View?....Pages 297-300 Front Matter....Pages 237-237 Beyond the Giving and Taking of Accounts: Time, Space and the Social in Educational Research with Youth....Pages 301-310 Temporality and Identity in Youth Research....Pages 311-313 Towards Accountability and Responsibility: Meditations on Engaging the Uneven, Murky and Messy Path Towards Justice with Youth and Community....Pages 315-317 Culture in International and Comparative Education Research: Conceptual and Methodological Issues....Pages 319-331 Understanding International and Comparative Education Research....Pages 333-339 Reducing the Research-Practice Gap Through Problem-Based Methodology....Pages 341-352 Reflections on Problem-Based Methodology....Pages 353-356 The Research-Practice Gap and How to Fill It....Pages 357-360 Front Matter....Pages 361-361 Questions of Legitimacy and Quality in Educational Research....Pages 363-374 Quality in Educational Research....Pages 375-385 Questions of Quality in Educational Research....Pages 387-390 Evidence Based Practice in Education: Between Science and Democracy....Pages 391-400 Philosophy Is Not Enough: Inserting Methodology and Politics into the Space Between Science and Democracy....Pages 401-405 The Politics of Legitimating Research....Pages 407-415 The Politics of Legitimating Research: A Case with Commentary....Pages 417-420 Course Team Fictions: Living with the Politics of Legitimating Research....Pages 421-424 Criterial Judgements in Education: Knowledge and Research....Pages 425-431 Quality Criteria in Educational Research: Is Beauty More Important Than Popularity?....Pages 433-441 Legitimation in Post-critical, Post-realist Times, or Whether Legitimation?....Pages 443-450 Provocative/Provoking Legitimation....Pages 451-455 Front Matter....Pages 361-361 Evolving Ethics of Educational Research....Pages 457-469 Ethics, Power and Intellectual Virtue: Doing Right in a Diversified Educational Research Environment....Pages 471-475 Front Matter....Pages 477-477 Destabilizing Representation of Research in Education....Pages 479-488 Historical Trends and Contemporary Issues in Representing Research in Education....Pages 489-497 Whose Research? Whose Reality? The Identity Politics of Education Science....Pages 499-502 Inscriptions in Educational Research....Pages 503-512 Visual Representations in Educational Research....Pages 513-516 The heART of Educational Inquiry: Deconstructing the Boundaries Between Research, Knowing and Representation....Pages 517-531 Mapwork: Atlas Interrupted....Pages 533-537 Startling Stories: Fiction and Reality in Education Research....Pages 539-548 Fictional Characters in Narrative Research Writing....Pages 549-553 What if I Don’t Get It Right?....Pages 555-558 Representations 1.0, 2.0, 3.0....Pages 559-567 Responding to Environmental Crises Through Multi-media Hypertextual Research Representation....Pages 569-574 The New Openness in Educational Research....Pages 575-582 How Open Publishing Tools Are Changing Research Representation: An Account of Early Open Journal System Users....Pages 583-585 Making Public Educational Research: Enabling Impact as Integral to the Educational Research Process....Pages 587-590 Back Matter....Pages 591-606 "This volume offers a unique commentary on the diverse ways that educational inquiry is conceived, designed and critiqued. An international team of scholars examines cross-cutting themes of how research in education is conceptualised, characterised, contextualised, legitimated and represented. Contributions include specially commissioned essays, critical commentaries, vignettes, dialogues and cases. Each section discusses the significance of a complex terrain of ideas and critiques that can inform thinking and practice in educational research. The result is a thorough and accessible volume that offers fresh insights into the perspectives and challenges that shape diverse genres of research in education."--Page 4 de la couverture