THE INTEGRITY OF EDUCATION AND THE FUTURE OF EDUCATIONAL STUDIES

IF 1.7 3区教育学 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

British Journal of Educational Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-24 DOI:10.1080/00071005.2023.2242452

G. Biesta

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Abstract

ABSTRACT In this paper, based on an invited keynote given at the 2022 Colloquium of the Society for Educational Studies, I explore the question of the integrity of educational studies. I ask is whether educational studies in their current configuration are able to offer resistance to the instrumentalisation of education and the push towards empirical research that is only interested in finding out what works, but is unable to engage with this question in a properly educational way. Through a reconstruction of the history of educational studies in the English-speaking world, I show how educational studies are predominantly configured as an ‘applied field’. The problem with this configuration is that educational studies lack the resources for generating educational questions about and an educational perspective on education. I show why this is a problem, also in relation to ongoing misunderstandings and misrepresentations of education. In the final part of the paper I outline two approaches, one focusing on educational concepts and one highlighting the unique and distinctive form of education, that may help to build a stronger identity for educational studies. I see this as a major challenge for the future of educational studies in the English-speaking world.

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教育的完整性与教育研究的未来

在本文中，基于在2022年教育研究学会学术研讨会上的受邀主题演讲，我探讨了教育研究的完整性问题。我的问题是，目前的教育研究是否能够抵制教育的工具化，以及对实证研究的推动，这种研究只对找出有效的方法感兴趣，但无法以适当的教育方式参与这个问题。通过对英语世界教育研究历史的重建，我展示了教育研究是如何被主要配置为一个“应用领域”的。这种配置的问题是，教育研究缺乏资源来产生关于教育的教育问题和对教育的教育观点。我展示了为什么这是一个问题，也与持续的误解和对教育的歪曲有关。在本文的最后一部分，我概述了两种方法，一种侧重于教育概念，另一种强调教育的独特和独特形式，这可能有助于建立更强的教育研究身份。我认为这是对未来英语世界教育研究的一个重大挑战。

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British Journal of Educational Studies EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-

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期刊介绍： The British Journal of Educational Studies is one of the UK foremost international education journals. It publishes scholarly, research-based articles on education which draw particularly upon historical, philosophical and sociological analysis and sources.