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Philosophy of Education in a New Key: Future of Philosophy of Education
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Tesar, Marek; Hytten, Kathy; Hoskins, Te Kawehau; Rosiek, Jerry; Jackson, Alecia Y.; Hand, Michael; Roberts, Peter; Opiniano, Gina A.; Matapo, Jacoba; St. Pierre, Elizabeth Adams; Azada-Palacios, Rowena; Kuby, Candace R.; Jones, Alison; Mazzei, Lisa A.; Maruyama, Yasushi; O'Donnell, Aislinn; Dixon-Román, Ezekiel; Chengbing, Wang; Huang, Zhongjing; Chen, Lei; Peters, MichaelA.; Jackson, Liz – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2022
What is the future of Philosophy of education? Or as many of scholars and thinkers in this final 'future-focused' collective piece from the philosophy of education in a new key Series put it, what are the futures--plural and multiple--of the intersections of 'philosophy' and 'education?' What is 'Philosophy'; and what is 'Education', and what role…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Educational Theories, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis
Another Postmodern Report on Knowledge: Positivism and Its Others
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St. Pierre, Elizabeth Adams – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2012
During the first decade of the twenty-first century, neopositivist claims made about the nature and validity of knowledge in the debates about scientifically based research were countered by educators who, decades earlier, had made various turns away from positivism and were surprised by its resurgence. In those debates, positivists often used…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Epistemology, Validity, Scientific Research
The Call for Intelligibility in Postmodern Educational Research.
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St. Pierre, Elizabeth Adams – Educational Researcher, 2000
Illustrates how intelligibility works in postmodern educational research, discussing how postmodern critiques shift the meaning and significance of the concept of relativism. Explains how the concept can be interpreted in one way within a particular set of conditions and entirely reworked in another. Criticizes omissions in Constas' 1998 typology…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Postmodernism
"Science" Rejects Postmodernism.
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St. Pierre, Elizabeth Adams – Educational Researcher, 2002
The National Research Council report, "Scientific Research in Education," claims to present an inclusive view of sciences in responding to federal attempts to legislate educational research. This article asserts that it narrowly defines science as positivism and methodology as quantitative, rejecting postmodernism and omitting other theories. Uses…
Descriptors: Definitions, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Postmodernism
Comment: "Science" Rejects Postmodernism
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St. Pierre, Elizabeth Adams – Educational Researcher, 2002
The National Research Council report "Scientific Research in Education" claims to present an inclusive view of science as it responds to federal government attempts to legislate educational research. This author argues, however, that the report in fact narrowly defines "science" as positivism and "methodology" as quantitative. These definitions…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Educational Research, Postmodernism, Federal Government
A Critique of the Rational Individual of Liberal Democracy.
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St. Pierre, Elizabeth Adams – 1997
The gap between the theory of democracy and its practice is nowhere more evident than in the classroom, where the teachers charged with transmitting democratic values to the next generation of citizens can only repeat democracy's failures. Some people would like to separate liberalism from the concept of democracy, since they believe that the…
Descriptors: Democracy, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education