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Record Nr.

UNINA9910155273403321

Autore

Bridges David

Titolo

Philosophy in Educational Research [[electronic resource] ] : Epistemology, Ethics, Politics and Quality / / by David Bridges

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

9783319492124

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIX, 479 p. 1 illus.)

Disciplina

370.1

Soggetti

Education—Philosophy

Philosophy and social sciences

Education—Research

Educational Philosophy

Philosophy of Education

Research Methods in Education

Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Educational Research and Philosophy in ‘Interesting Times’ -- PART 1: Educational Research and its Intellectual Resources -- PART 2: Education as Applied Research: Practice and Policy -- PART 3: Philosophy and Educational Research -- PART 4: Truth(s) in Educational Research -- PART 5: Ethics and Educational Research -- PART 6: Research Quality and its Assessment -- EPILOGUE.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides critical and reflective discussions of a wide range of issues arising in education at the interface between philosophy, research, policy and practice. It addresses epistemological questions about the intellectual resources that underpin educational research, explores the relationship between philosophy and educational research, and examines debates about truth and truthfulness in educational research. Furthermore, it looks at issues to do with the relationship between research, practice and policy, and discusses questions about ethics and educational research. Finally, the book delves into the deeply



contested area of research quality assessment. The book is based on extensive engagement in empirically based educational research projects and in the institutional and professional management of research, as well as in philosophical work. It clarifies what is at stake in international debates around educational research and teases out the nature of the arguments, and, where argument permits, the conclusions to which these point. The book discusses these familiar themes using less predictable sources and points of reference, such as: codes of social obligation in contemporary Egypt and New Zealand; the ‘Soviet’, and the inspiration of the nineteenth-century philosopher, Abai in contemporary Kazakhstan; seventeenth-century France, Pascal, and the disputes between Jesuits and Jansenites; eighteenth-century Italy, Giambattista Vico, and la scienzia nuova; ‘educational magic’ in traditional Ethiopia; and ends at a banquet with Socrates and dinner with wine and a conversation-loving Montaigne. .