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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Educational Research: Proofs, Arguments, and Other Reasonings
  name:
    name part: Smeyers, Paul.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Depaepe, Marc.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VI, 199 p. online resource.
  abstract: This book focuses on the language of educational research as well as on the language of education. It conceives both as social practices and investigates how rhetoric plays a part in the complex process of historically situated argumentation. The book aims to answer such questions as: ‘What is the nature of the arguments and the kinds of sources one relies on?’ and ‘What kind of reasoning is offered to convince practitioners?’ Taking postmodern criticism seriously, the contributors argue that the scholar or researcher cannot indulge in relativism or be satisfied with a description of particular cases. Instead, theoreticians as well as practitioners have to engage in sound thinking and dialogue. The chapters in this volume highlight relevant characteristics of the language of educational research. In addition, attention is paid to the language of particular debates which figure prominently in the wider educational context, such as the language of goals, of parenting, citizenship and capability. ‘This collection of thirteen essays focuses on the language of proofs, argument and rhetoric in educational research in a range of thematically related original pieces that explore the topic and its applications: forms of historical reasoning, the place of rhetoric, educational formalism, the knowledge economy, argumentation, and the role of evidence, amongst others. It explores both the philosophical and methodological meta-issues as well as the important of specific and particular educational languages. The resulting volume is genuinely enlightening and deserves to be read widely by both academic and students within the field of education and across the social sciences.’ Michael A. Peters, Educational Policy Studies, The University of Illinois, USA ‘The contributions to this timely collection of essays place the ‘language’ of education at the centre of a discussion about the practice of educational research and reminds us - both the established and the new researcher - of th…
  table of contents: Rhetoric and Argument in the Language of Education and of Educational Research -- Beyond Arguments and Ideas: Languages of Education -- Sources in the Making of Histories of Education: Proofs, Arguments, and Other Forms of Reasoning from the Historian’s Workplace -- Educational Formalism and the Language of Goals in American Education, Educational Reform, and Educational History -- The Language of Education and the Language of Educational Research: The Knowledge Economy, Citizenship and Subjectivation -- Parenting in a Technological Age -- Capability and the Language of Educational Research -- A Rhetoric for Educational Research -- Arguments and Proofs About Arguments and Proofs -- Evidence and Argumentation in Educational Research -- Half a Language: Listening in the City of Words -- Revisiting Achilles’ Sadness that No Method Can Be Found -- Reasoning from Educational Research to Policy.
  note: edited by Paul Smeyers, Marc Depaepe.
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Educational policy
  subject:
    topic: ducation and state
  subject:
    topic: Educational sociology
  subject:
    topic: Education
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Education and sociology
  subject:
    topic: Sociology, Educational
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Educational Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Educational Policy and Politics
  subject:
    topic: Sociology of Education
  classification: LC8-6691
  classification: 370.1
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Educational Research ; 4
  identifier: 9789048132492
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3249-2
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    record creation date: 100301
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