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Shifting Epistemologies for Discipline and Rigor in Educational Research: Challenges and Opportunities from Digital Humanities
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Priem, Karin; Fendler, Lynn – European Educational Research Journal, 2019
This article historicizes "rigor," discipline," and "systematic" as inventions of a certain rational spirit of Enlightenment that was radicalized during the 19th century. These terms acquired temporary value in a transition during the 19th century when a culture of research was established within a modern episteme.…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Educational Research, Humanities, Test Reliability
On the Two Cultures of Educational Research, and How We Might Move Ahead: Reconsidering the Ontology, Axiology and Praxeology of Education
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Biesta, Gert – European Educational Research Journal, 2015
In this paper I focus on a split within the field of educational research between those who approach education as an activity or practice governed by "cause-effect" relationships and those who see education as a human event of communication, meaning making and interpretation. Rather than just arguing against the former and in favour of…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Role of Education, Educational Practices, Educational Philosophy
Social Capital: An Educational Panacea or a Challenge to the Way We Do Policy?
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Healy, Tom – European Educational Research Journal, 2006
This article focuses on these key themes: (1) the value of education as learning to be fully human, (2) the value of education as learning to be fully human with others and for others - inviting us to consider the concept of "social capital" as a way of tapping into and releasing this value; and accordingly, (3) a number of practical…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Educational Policy, Educational Practices, Concept Formation