Fiction written under oath? : essays in philosophy and educational research / by David Bridges.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bridges, David, 1941-

Series:

Philosophy and education ; v. 10.

Philosophy and education ; v. 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Research--Philosophy.

Education.

Physical Description:

xii, 214 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2003]

Contents:

Chapter 1 A 'biographical positioning' 1

Chapter 2 Introduction: philosophising about educational research 13

Philosophising and educational research 13

Philosophising about educational research 13

Introduction to the chapters which follow 16

Chapter 3 Philosophising as and in educational research 21

Philosophy and educational research 21

Philosophising as research 21

Conceptual clarification and educational research 24

The logic and the psychology of the development of theory 26

Dissolving the empirical/philosophical divide 28

Chapter 4 The discipline(s) of educational research 33

Educational research as disciplined enquiry 33

Education is a field of (applied?) research 33

Educational research draws on established disciplines of enquiry and representation 36

Discipline and post-disciplinarity 40

Disciplines: necessary but not sufficient 42

Practitioner/action research and discipline based enquiry 45

Chapter 5 Educational theory, practice and research: pragmatic perspectives 51

Pragmatism 51

The limits of pragmatism 56

Extending the 'experiencing nature' 59

Theory revisited 62

Research revisited - and conclusion 64

Chapter 6 Educational research: pursuit of truth or flight into fancy? 67

Statements, propositions and truth 68

Counter-examples 69

Other forms of speech act 69

The psycho dynamics of language 69

Retreating to the primeval grunt 69

Propositions of contested status 70

Lying and deceit 70

Being mistaken 70

The denial of truth 71

Five theories of truth 71

(1) Truth as correspondence 72

(2) Truth as coherence 74

(3) Truth as 'what works' 75

(4) Truth as consensus 76

(5) Truth as warranted belief 78

Theories of truth and paradigms of educational research 80

Truth and constructivism in fourth generation evaluation 81

Truth and the post-modern researcher 84

Chapter 7 Narratives, fiction and the magic of the real 89

Qualitative research and literary form 89

Two contrasting narratives 91

The real 94

The real as the gold standard 96

The real and the unasked question 97

Fiction and falsification 98

The magic of the real 100

Postscript: a 'research report' in a work of fiction 103

Chapter 8 Narratives in history, fiction and educational research 105

History and historical fiction: some resemblance 105

History as literature written under handicap 107

'Wie es eigentlich gewesen' - 'scientific' history and the break with literature 108

History as narrative (again) 110

The distinction between the historical and fictional narrative 111

Ending 113

Chapter 9 Quality and relevance in educational research 115

Quality 116

Relevance 120

Impact 122

Quality again 125

Scholarly rigour 127

Imagination, fecundity and vision 128

Style 130

Ethical considerations 131

Chapter 10 'Nothing about us without us': ethics and outsider research 133

Only insiders can properly represent the experience of a community 134

Outsiders import damaging frameworks of understanding 137

Outsiders exploit insider participants in the communities they research 142

Outsiders' research disempowers insiders 144

Practitioner research: the answer? 148

Chapter 11 Research for sale: moral market or moral maze? 153

The proposition 156

Epistemic drift and the publication of research 157

A moral argument against restrictive ownership of educational research 159

Knowledge and politics 160

The moral maze 164

Educational research and 'the delinquent academy' 166

Chapter 12 'Fiction written under oath'? Ethics and epistemology in educational research 171

Ethical principles constitute an obstacle to validity and truth in research 172

Ethical principles provide the necessary social or interpersonal conditions for the achievement of validity and truth in research 173

Ethical principles provide necessary conditions for the quality of individual research and hence the validity and truthfulness of the claims which issue from it 174

Ethical principles provide both the necessary and sufficient conditions for the validity and truthfulness of the outcomes of research 176

Chapter 13 From philosophising about research to researching philosophy: reflections on a reflective log 181

Writing as part of a personal story 182

Personal and professional distractions 182

Continuity and antecedents 183

Inactivity and the unconscious 183

Writing as a social practice 184

Networking and intellectual community 184

Enquiry made public 185

Writing as a literary activity 187

Personal voice and published voices 187

A literary construction 188

Writing as an attempt to satisfy (methodo)logical requirements 189

The intellectualisation of perplexity 189

Argument and counter argument 190

Observing some relevant distinctions 190

Representation of the field 191.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-205) and index.

ISBN:

1402010834

OCLC:

51041922