A method has been found? On educational research and its methodological preoccupations

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Notes

¹ Guest Editors Marc Depaepe and Paul Smeyers, “Refuge in Theory,” Educational Philosophy and Theory 39, no. 1 (2007).

² Among others the following colleagues from 12 centres worldwide and three Belgian units have participated: W. Van Haaften (Nijmegen, The Netherlands); J. Dekker (Groningen, The Netherlands); J. Marshall (Auckland, New Zealand); N. Burbules (Urbana‐Champaign, Illinois, USA); D. Labaree (Stanford, California, USA); P. Standish (Institute of Education, London, UK); R. Smith (Durham, UK); D. Bridges (Von Hügel Institute, St Edmund’s College, Cambridge and University of East Anglia, UK); M. Peters (Urbana‐Chapaign, Illinois, USA and Glasgow, UK); T.S. Popkewitz (Madison, Wisconsin, USA); L. Fendler (Michigan State, USA); L. Stone (North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA); E. Keiner (Ruhr‐Universität, Bochum, Germany), D. Tröhler (Zürich, Switzerland); S. Cuypers, M. Depaepe, J. Masschelein, S. Ramaekers, M. Simons, P. Smeyers, and A. Van Gorp, (Leuven, Belgium); F. Simon and P. Smeyers (Ghent, Belgium); J.P. Van Bendegem (Brussels, Belgium).

³ All books are edited by Paul Smeyers and Marc Depaepe. Except for the first book, which is published by Leuven University Press (Leuven), all others are published by Springer (Dordrecht). Some of the elements in this introduction rely on more elaborated arguments developed by Depaepe and/or Smeyers either in the introduction or in particular chapters of the mentioned books.

⁴ Quoted in D. Bridges and R. Smith, “Philosophy, methodology and educational research: Introduction,” Journal of Philosophy of Education 40 (2006): 131.

⁵ L. Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations/Philosophische Untersuchungen, trans. G.E.M. Anscombe (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1953), 133.

⁶ P. Winch, The Idea of a Social Science and its Relation to Philosophy (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1958).

⁷ Ibid., 15.

⁸ Bridges and Smith, “Philosophy, methodology and educational research: Introduction”, 134.

⁹ F.R. Ankersmit, De Spiegel van het Verleden. Exploraties I: Geschiedtheorie [The Mirror of the Past. Explorations I: Theory of History] (Kampen: Kok, 1996).