Educational Research: The Attraction of Psychology

The closely argued and provocative contributions to this volume challenge psychology’s hegemony as an interpretive paradigm in a range of social contexts such as education and child development. They start from the core observation that modern psychology has successfully penetrated numerous domains...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Smeyers, Paul (Editor), Depaepe, Marc (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Series:Educational Research ; 6
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Making sense of the attraction of psychology: On the strengths and weaknesses for education and educational research
  • 2. Struggling with the historical attractiveness of psychology for educational research illustrated by the case of Nazi-Germany
  • 3. On the fatal attractiveness of psychology: Racism of intelligence in education
  • 4. Psychology in teacher education: Efficacy, professionalization, management, and habit
  • 5. The fatal attraction of the language of developmental psychology in child rearing
  • 6. Mirror neuron, mirror neuron in the brain, who’s the cleverest in your reign? From the attraction of psychology to the discovery of the social
  • 7. The vocabulary of acts: Neuroscience, phenomenology, and the mirror-neuron
  • 8. The attraction of neuropsychological findings in contemporary educational thinking, or: Feeling, emotion and relationship as blind spots in educational theory
  • 9. In defence of the humanities against the exaggerated pretensions of ‘scientific’ psychology
  • 10. The theology of education to come
  • 11. Learning is not education
  • 12. Attention, commitment and imagination in educational research. Open the universe a little more!
  • About the Authors
  • Author Index
  • Subject index.