Past, present, and future possibilities for philosophy and history of education. Finding space and time for research

Over the last 20 years, the conditions in which research takes place and criteria for what counts as good research have changed considerably. They have done so in ways that are often less than favourable to disciplines such as history and philosophy of education, and the space and time for the practices that constitute these disciplines – of reading, of writing, of collegiality – is increasingly under pressure. During this time, the Research Community on the History and Philosophy of Educational Research has convened annually to bring its critical lenses to bear on these emergent conditions and to suggest, sometimes implicitly, ways that educational research might, or ought to, be done otherwise. On the occasion of the retirement of the co-founder and co-convenor of the Research Community, this volume takes stock of the state of these disciplines, their failure to halt the changes that threatened them, and those practices that remain and that are emerging in academia that we wish to protect, to pass on to the next generation of researchers in these fields. The intensification of metric-based assessments of quality and excellence, the demand to evidence impact beyond the academy, and the growth in the precarity and competitiveness of research careers has always seemed at odds with the values, implicit or explicit, of those engaged in research in the history and philosophy of education. Critique that merely shores up cynicism or further illustrates the inability of these fields to meet these criteria, however, has little influence in stemming these developments. In this volume, therefore, we seek to both offer critical analyses that focus on those practices that do still exist and that do offer space and time for these forms of research, and accounts that question whether or not it matters that the ‘outputs’ of these fields do not directly and easily fit into or score highly on the latest metrics, or do not impact the society or culture that they study.

ISBN:978-3-319-94252-0

Jaar van publicatie:2018