Educational Research: Proofs, Arguments, and Other Reasonings

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Smeyers, Paul (Editor), Depaepe, Marc (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2010.
• Series: Educational Research ; 4
• Subjects: Education.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Educational sociology.; Education > Philosophy.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Educational Philosophy.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Sociology of Education.

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 n...

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.