Educational Research: Material Culture and Its Representation

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. On the Tangible Material Culture of Child-Rearing, Education, and Educational Research

   • Paul Smeyers, Marc Depaepe

   Pages 1-12

3. Valorising the Cultural Heritage of the School Desk Through Historical Research

   • Marc Depaepe, Frank Simon, Pieter Verstraete

   Pages 13-30

4. Mirrors of Reality? Material Culture, Historical Sensation, and the Significance of Images for Research into Long-Term Educational Processes

   • Jeroen J. H. Dekker

   Pages 31-51

5. Visual, Literary, and Numerical Perspectives on Education: Materiality, Presence, and Interpretation

   • Karin Priem

   Pages 53-69

6. Education and the ‘New Totalitarianism’: How Standards for Reporting on Empirical Studies of Education Limit the Scope of Academic Research and Communication

   • Sophie Ward

   Pages 71-85

7. Materials That Shape Researchers

   • Naomi Hodgson

   Pages 87-96

8. The Tractarian Template in the Representation of Educational Research: Can We Ever Depart from the Picture of Logical Empiricism?

   • Paul Smeyers

   Pages 97-114

9. The Ethics of Materiality: Some Insights from Non-representational Theory

   • Lynn Fendler

   Pages 115-132

10. Mud and Hair: An Essay on the Conditions of Educational Research

    • Richard Smith

    Pages 133-144

11. Material and Aesthetic Tensions Within Arts-Based Educational Research: Drawing Woodpaths

    • Maureen K. Michael, Ian Munday

    Pages 145-162

12. Olympification Versus Aesthetization: The Appeal of Mathematics Outside the Classroom

    • Kathleen Coessens, Karen François, Jean Paul Van Bendegem

    Pages 163-178

13. Signs of the Times: Iconography of a New Education

    • Paul Standish

    Pages 179-189

14. The Paradigmatic Differences Between Name/Date and Footnote Styles of Citation

    • Nicholas C. Burbules

    Pages 191-199

15. Conversation—In the Construction and Representation of Research

    • David Bridges

    Pages 201-213

16. Back Matter

    Pages 215-219

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This collection discusses and illustrates how educational research is affected by the economic, institutional and physical contingencies of its time, and in our time even increasingly is driven by them. It is argued that the antidote to this is, however, not to aspire to ‘thought itself’, but instead to do justice to its own rootedness in the ‘material’, including textuality. From an historical point of view such an innovative approach can itself revamp the material scholarly culture and the way it is represented. The chapters address a variety of topics such as the cultural heritage of the school desk, the significance of images for research into long-term educational processes, the way iconic signs function, and how modes of enquiry relate to the materiality of education. Attention is also given to standards for reporting on educational research studies and how these limit the scope and communication and moreover shape researchers, to the forms of citation practices as substantially influencing methods and content, and to the centrality of conversation not just as the means to an end but as what matters; further to representational and to non-representational theories for educational research. Some examples are drawn from the area of arts-based educational research, from mathematics education, and from the discourse on universities.

• History of education and childhood
• Material Culture
• Mathematics education
• Representation of educational research
• Research culture
• Research practice

• Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

  Paul Smeyers

• Campus Kortrijk, Subfaculteit Psychologie en Pedagogische Wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Kortrijk, Belgium

  Marc Depaepe

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