The new pragmatism and social science and educational research

2003 ◽  
pp. 155-177
Author(s):  
Spencer J. Maxcy
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Educational Research

scholarly journals A Commentary on Althusser's 1963 Presentation of Bourdieu and Passeron

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 23-44
Author(s):  
Charlotte Branchu ◽  
Derek Robbins
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Historical Sociology ◽  
Philosophical Perspective ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
French Colonial ◽  
Colonial Oppression ◽  
Guest Speakers

The commentary provides contextual information about the seminar which Bourdieu and Passeron gave in the École Normale Supérieure on 6 December 1963. It appears that the intended series of seminars was curtailed, perhaps because the initial seminar of 6 December exposed the extent to which Althusser was formally managing the intentions of his guest speakers and resisting the implications of their ongoing research on students and their studies. The commentary argues that the conflict between Althusser and Bourdieu/Passeron was inter-generational in that Althusser’s attitudes had been shaped by his experience as a victim of Nazi oppression whereas those of Bourdieu/Passeron were defined, instead, by their unwilling participation in the French colonial oppression of indigenous Algerians. Althusser was intent on examining philosophically the validity of various contemporary versions of social science whereas Bourdieu and Passeron were engaged in educational research which was scrutinizing sociologically the validity of precisely this supposedly detached philosophical perspective. In short, the commentary is aligned with the Bourdieu/Passeron position in that it seeks to offer an historical sociology of the encounter of December 1963.

Latin American Perspectives on Participatory Methodologies in Educational Research

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danilo Romeu Streck ◽  
Telmo Adams
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Popular Education ◽  
Paulo Freire ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
The Caribbean

Since the second half of the 20th century, research practices in social science and the humanities in Latin America and the Caribbean have been developed alongside criticisms of positivist methodologies. Some of the main interventions are reviewed by scholars such as Orlando Fals Borda, João Bosco Guedes Pinto, Michel Thiollent, Paulo Freire, Carlos Rodrigues Brandão, and Oscar Jara. Participation is central to all of these, but each contain nuances that must be identified, explained, and analyzed. Furthermore, these interventions relate to the field of popular education or, more broadly, to practices associated with critical educational proposals.

Scientometric Approaches to Better Visibility of European Educational Research Publications: A State-of-the-Art-Report

2007 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 303-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Botte
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
Social Science Citation Index ◽  
Research Association ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Evaluation Instrument ◽  
Project Proposal ◽  
Research Publications ◽  
Academic Publications

This article reports on methodological approaches to evaluate the relevance and quality of educational research publications. In the first section it focuses on the ISI Social Science Citation Index and shows that this standard instrument for bibliometric measurement is insufficient for the representation of European educational research. In the following sections, alternative approaches are delineated in order to constitute the proposal of a multi-attributive setting for a new observation and evaluation instrument for social science academic publications. The final section outlines a project proposal submitted to the 7th Framework Programme of the European Union, supported by the European Educational Research Association (EERA).

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