The disciplines and discipline of educational research

Bridges, David (2006) The disciplines and discipline of educational research. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 40 (2). pp. 259-272. ISSN 0309-8249

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Abstract

This paper starts from the point in the early 1970s at which educational theory and research was temporarily structured under the ‘foundation’ disciplines of psychology, sociology, philosophy and history of education. It observes the way the intellectual resources of educational research have become enlarged and enriched and these disciplines themselves fragmented and hybridised to a degree that prompts talk not just of interdisciplinarity but of ‘postdisciplinarity’. The paper argues, however, that without discipline, in the sense of a shared language, a rule governed structure of enquiry—something ‘systematic’—we lose the conditions that make a community of arguers possible. Further, we lose the basis for the special claim which research might otherwise make on our attention and on our belief.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Education and Lifelong Learning
Depositing User:	Vishal Gautam
Date Deposited:	01 May 2006
Last Modified:	08 Feb 2023 15:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/16404
DOI:	10.1111/j.1467-9752.2006.00503.x

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