Is educational research chasing the trends one can observe in big sciences, mimicking what happens, some would say successfully, elsewhere in academia? The question in the title of this edited collection took its inspiration from a verse by Goethe: Wer Großes will, muss sich zusammenraffen. In der Beschränkung zeigt sich erst der Meister. Such confinement or limitation that may show mastery does not characterize at all the present state of the educational research publication scene. Instead, there have never been more of such publications which follow each other with an increasing speed. It may therefore be interesting to delve into the reasons of this development that is characteristic of what is published in this field as in many or almost all fields of scholarly work. The chapters in this collection address aspects of the (re)presentation, dissemination and reception, and the production and acceleration of educational research. An international group of scholars, philosophers and historians of education, address questions such as ‘Why publish?’, ‘The lust for academic fame’, ‘Why educational historiography is not an unnecessary luxury?’, and ‘Ways of knowing’. The twelve chapters are preceded by an introduction where issues of plurality and diversity in the study of education are at centre stage and followed by an Epilogue written by the Editors of the Springer Series Educational Research. Paul Smeyers and Marc Depaepe offer some final reflections after a journey of two decades that took them and the colleagues participating in the Research Community from 1999 till 2018 floating on the current of the Zeitgeist that carried the Discipline of Education. They claim finally that mastery in the study of education requires restraint.
Author(s): Paul Smeyers, Marc Depaepe
Series: Educational Research
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2021
Language: English
Commentary: TruePDF
Pages: 234
Tags: Education: General; Educational Philosophy; Philosophy Of Education; Educational Policy And Politics; Research Methods In Education
Contents
Editors and Contributors
Incentives to Embrace Plurality and Diversity in the Study of Education. An Introduction
References
Why Publish?
A Few Facts
The Diagnosis
The Consequences, Writ Large
The Consequences, for Authors
The Consequences, for Journal Editors
A Glimpse into the Future
Conclusion
References
The Lust for Academic Fame: America’s Engine for Scholarly Production
Introduction
References
‘Relations of Production’ and Their Impact on the Character and Pace of Research and Scholarship
Introduction
The Scholar Monk
Independent Scholars of the Enlightenment Era
From ‘Universitification’ to Practitioner Research in the Mid Twentieth Century
Relations of Production in the Contemporary World of Educational Research
Conclusion
References
Evaluating Productivity in Educational Research: Evaluation Criteria of Rigor and Ethics
Productivity in Historical Contexts
Popular Measures of Productivity
Smarter, Faster, Better
Getting Things Done
Bibliometrics: Another Popular Approach for Evaluating Research Productivity
Research-Based Conceptualizations of Productivity
Practical Professional Considerations: Reading Institutional Research-Evaluation Guidelines Literally
Implications for Educational Research: What Kind of World Are We Creating?
From Ranking to Relevance
From Relevance to Ethics
Conclusion
References
Times of Elephants: Foucault-Inspired Intervals of Production, Critique, and Accelerated Configurings
Introduction
Need for Time
Foucault Inspiration
Interval
Interval I—Cultural Production as Coming Discontent
Episode: Circuits and Progress
Episode: Civilizing the Jungle
Episode: Individual Development and the Self
Interval II—Belations/Critique
Episode: Re-Writing Progress
Episode: Post-colonial Criticism
Episode: Institutions–Critique in Lieu of Opportunity
Conclusion
References
Lost in Narcissism? An Elementary Quantitative, but Deliberately Non-bibliometric Approach to My Own Publication Behaviour
By Way of Introduction
My Data Files
Of Books and Journals
A Matter of Language
Co-authorships and Co-editorships
Finally, What Shall We Say About Content?
Is There Anything then to Be Concluded from This?
References
Lost in Enthusiasm? An Elementary Qualitative Analysis of 44 Years of Research in Order to Show Why Even Today Educational Historiography is Not an Unnecessary Luxury
References
Understanding Without Words: Visual Representations in Math, Science and Art
Introduction
The Importance of Visual Representations in Science
The Use of Diagrams in the Philosophy of Mathematics
The Receptive Potential of Artistic Diagrams
Heuristic, Phenomenological, Hermeneutic, Imaginal and Archetypal Aspects of Art Diagrams
Artistic Input for Empirical, Statistical and Scientific Diagrams
Conclusion
References
The State’s Spectacles: Education Statistics, Representations of Schooling, and the Federal Government’s Educational Sight
Introduction
Charts About Tables
Value of False Numbers?
Numbers as Myth and Ceremony
Conclusion: Toward an Understanding of Statistical Repertoires
References
From the Global Sixties to the Global 2010s: Communicating About Research in the History of Education (A Perspective from France)
The Global Sixties in Educational Research
The French Rise to the Challenge
The Digital Era: Access and Illusions
Digital France
Publishing Strategies in the Digital World: The Perspective From France
A Few Desultory Conclusive Remarks
References
Curiosity and Acquaintance: Ways of Knowing
Searching for Curiosity
Ways of Knowing in Close My Eyes
Epistemology, Acquaintance, and the Classroom
Ways of Knowing and Educational Research
References
Education, Fast and Slow
Faster and Faster
Slowing Down
Time Before and Time After
Towards an Epistemology of Slow
Coda
References
Mastery in the Study of Education Requires Restraint. An Epilogue
On Facts, Themes, and The Overall Approach
Knowledge for a Particular Purpose?
Intellectually Exciting Exchanges With Colleagues and Friendship En Route
A Humbling Experience: Over to History for the Final Word
References
Author Index
Subject Index
