Overview

This volume of essays demonstrates and comments on philosophical methods in educational research. Offers a clear picture of what philosophers do when they study education Brings together a series of essays from an international cast of contributors from Canada, UK, Finland, and Cyprus Examines a range of new and established philosophical methods which can be used in educational research Demonstrates how philosophy of education can be understood methodologically Draws from both Continental and Analytical traditions Fills a gap in the research methods literature in education and the social sciences

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Author:   Claudia Ruitenberg (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.254kg
ISBN:  

9781444332971

ISBN 10:   144433297
Pages:   166
Publication Date:   23 April 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
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Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors vii Foreword ix Paul Standish 1 Introduction: The Question of Method in Philosophy of Education 1 Claudia Ruitenberg 2 The Strict Analysis and the Open Discussion 10 Katariina Holma 3 ‘Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better’: Dialectical Argument in Philosophy of Education 24 Daniel Vokey 4 Education and Selfhood: A Phenomenological Investigation 41 Michael Bonnett 5 Examples as Method? My Attempts to Understand Assessment and Fairness (in the Spirit of the Later Wittgenstein) 54 Andrew Davis 6 Witnessing Deconstruction in Education: Why Quasi-Transcendentalism Matters 73 Gert Biesta 7 Under the Name of Method: On Jacques Rancie`re’s Presumptive Tautology 87 Charles Bingham 8 Distance and Defamiliarisation: Translation as Philosophical Method 103 Claudia Ruitenberg 9 Between the Lines: Philosophy, Text and Conversation 118 Richard Smith 10 Method, Philosophy of Education and the Sphere of the Practico-Inert 131 Marianna Papastephanou Index 150

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The book is a welcome addition to the study of method in educational research. It provides an explanation of the place and purpose of philosophy as a tool for educational research. Recommended. Graduate, research, and professional collections. (Choice, 1 May 2011)

Author Information

Claudia Ruitenberg is Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Education at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. She teaches courses in educational theory, philosophical research methods, and critical thinking. She has published articles in the Philosophy of Education Yearbooks, the Journal of Philosophy of Education, Studies in Philosophy of Education, and Educational Philosophy and Theory. Her research interests include philosophical research methods, discursive performativity and its relation to freedom of speech, hate speech and censorship in education, agonistic political theory and the implications for political education, and queer theory.

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