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Kimball, Ezekiel – Critical Questions in Education, 2016
This paper utilizes a critical post-pragmatist epistemological lens in tandem with an extended case analysis to explore how student affairs professionals process truth claims related to student experience. Findings from the study, which include the limited usage of formal theory and the iterative reconstruction of informal theory, are used to…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Services, Student Personnel Workers, Case Studies, Theory Practice Relationship
Roets, Griet – Disability & Society, 2009
In this article the aim is to challenge essentialist ontological assumptions surrounding the impairment category of "learning difficulties" as it was previously conceptualized in social theory and practice. I ground my knowledge production in self-advocates connected to the self-advocacy movement in Flanders (Belgium) and in critical…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Social Theories
Crusius, Timothy W. – 1991
In language which can be understood by ordinary people with college backgrounds, this book introduces philosophical hermeneutics (the interpretive theory of the humanities) to English teachers, with their role in writing instruction especially in mind. The book contrasts philosophical hermeneutics with other theories of interpretation and…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Hermeneutics, Higher Education, Interpretive Skills

Kochan, Frances K. – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2002
Argues that the work of Jurgen Habermas offers a means of blending modern and postmodern elements in the field of educational administration. Discusses Habermas' guiding principles, which include: (1) consensus can always be challenged; (2) power must be equalized among those communicating; and (3) the only force that should prevail is that of a…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Context Effect, Critical Theory, Cultural Context

Bhola, Harbans S. – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2002
Suggests that a grand reflection on the paradigms of reality and the predicaments of life is needed in order to deal with the current discontent of humanity. Asserts that people must act on the world and reconstruct it to make it moral, just, and humane. Offers an agenda for educational leaders to help meet the needs of their communities.…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Critical Theory, Discourse Analysis, Educational Administration
Short, Edmund C. – 1993
This paper explores how various perspectives influence inquiry in education. Normative perspectives function as implicit theories of inquiry as a researcher undertakes formal inquiry, and such theories should be acknowledged. Epistemological as well as methodological issues raised by conceiving of such theories as normative rather than merely…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Values, Critical Theory, Educational Philosophy, Educational Research