This volume of essays demonstrates and comments on philosophical methods in educational research.Offers a clear picture of what philosophers do when they study educationBrings together a series of essays from an international cast of contributors from Canada, UK, Finland, and CyprusExamines a range of new and established philosophical methods which can be used in educational researchDemonstrates how philosophy of education can be understood methodologicallyDraws from both Continental and Analytical traditionsFills a gap in the research methods literature in education and the social sciences
Author(s): Claudia Ruitenberg
Edition: 1
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 168
What Do Philosophers of Education Do?......Page 5
Copyright Page......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Notes on Contributors......Page 9
Foreword......Page 11
1 Introduction: The Question of Method in Philosophy of Education......Page 13
2 The Strict Analysis and the Open Discussion......Page 22
3 'Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better': Dialectical Argument in Philosophy of Education......Page 36
4 Education and Selfhood: A Phenomenological Investigation......Page 53
5 Examples as Method? My Attempts to Understand Assessment and Fairness (in the Spirit of the Later Wittgenstein)......Page 66
6 Witnessing Deconstruction in Education: Why Quasi-Transcendentalism Matters......Page 85
7 Under the Name of Method: On Jacques Rancière's Presumptive Tautology......Page 99
8 Distance and Defamiliarisation: Translation as Philosophical Method......Page 115
9 Between the Lines: Philosophy, Text and Conversation......Page 130
10 Method, Philosophy of Education and the Sphere of the Practico-Inert......Page 143
Index......Page 162
