Paul Smeyers
5 Publications
International handbook of philosophy of education
Paul Smeyers (ed)
Springer - Berlin
2018
This handbook presents a comprehensive introduction to the core areas of philosophy of education combined with an up-to-date selection of the central themes. It includes 95 newly commissioned articles that focus on and advance key arguments; each essay incorporates essential background material serving to clarify the history and logic of the relevant topic, examining the status quo of the discipline with respect to the topic, and discussing the possible futures of the field.
International handbook of interpretation in educational research
Paul Smeyers, David Bridges, Nicholas C. Burbules, Morwenna Griffiths (eds)
Springer - Berlin
2015
This handbook focuses on the often neglected dimension of interpretation in educational research. It argues that all educational research is in some sense "interpretive", and that understanding this issue belies some usual dualisms of thought and practice, such as the sharp dichotomy between "qualitative" and "quantitative" research.
Educational research
Paul Smeyers, Marc Depaepe (eds)
Springer - Berlin
2014
This collection discusses and illustrates how educational research is affected by the economic, institutional and physical contingencies of its time, and in our time even increasingly is driven by them. It is argued that the antidote to this is, however, not to aspire to "thought itself", but instead to do justice to its own rootedness in the "material", including textuality.
Educational research
Paul Smeyers, Marc Depaepe, Edwin Keiner (eds)
Springer - Berlin
2013
This collection of fresh analyses aims to map the links between educational theory and research, and the geographical and physical spaces in which teaching is practiced and discussed. The authors combine historical and philosophical perspectives in examining the differing institutional loci of education research, and also assess the potential and the limitations of each.
Educational research: the attraction of psychology
Paul Smeyers, Marc Depaepe (eds)
Springer - Berlin
2013
The closely argued and provocative contributions to this volume challenge psychology's hegemony as an interpretive paradigm in a range of social contexts such as education and child development. They start from the core observation that modern psychology has successfully penetrated numerous domains of society in its quest to develop a properly scientific methodology for analyzing the human mind and behaviour.
5 Publications