Rethinking Practice, Research and Education A Philosophical Inquiry

by Flint, Kevin J.

• ISBN13: 9781441181510
• ISBN10: 1441181512
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781441167576
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-04-23
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Rethinking Practice, Research and Education brings together philosophy with traditional methodological discourse, and opens a space for critical thinking in social and educational research. Drawing on the work of Heidegger, Derrida, Foucault and their descendants, this engaging critical examination of practice applies a deconstructive reading to the practices of research.

Where is justice in the practice of research? How do paradigms for the production of knowledge shape what is given in the practice of research? What are the key issues involved in developing an ethos for the practice of research in the light of society's complex relationship with essential forms of technology? Each of these dimensions are explored, drawing on the traditions of research and their interplay with researchers' responsibilities to work towards justice in research.

A must-read for researchers, bringing the language of philosophy to the current debate about the impact of social and educational research in practice.

Author Biography

Kevin J. Flint is Reader in Education at Nottingham Trent University, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I: Practice of Educational Research
1. The Pragmatics of Practice in Research: what is so easily missed?
2. Existential Dramas in Researching Practice: what is their significance?
3. Rationalities of Researching Practice: what can be learned from Foucault and Agamben?
Part II: Laws and Justice to Come in Practice
4. Reframing the Ethics of Research: Laws and Justice to come
5. Reframed Ethics of Research: Some Implications for Practice
Part III: Method/ologies in Practice
6. Transformation of Practices: Moving beyond Epistemic and Paradigmatic Disciplinary Regimes in Practice
7. Transformation of Research Methodologies: Moving Beyond Enframing in Practice
8. Transformation of Research Methods: Opening Space for Beings in Practice
9. Transformation of the Analytics of Research: Generating New Spaces for Thinking in Practice
Part IV: The Politics of Practice
10. The Politics of Evidence: Moving Beyond the Technological Colonialism of this Liquid Modern World of Practice
11. The Politics of Practice: Generating Space for Play
12. The Politics of Identity: Creating Space for the Other in Practice
References
Index