A Companion to Research in Education

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
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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