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Production, Presentation, and Acceleration of Educational Research: Could Less be More?

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Editors:
  1. Paul Smeyers

    1. KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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  2. Marc Depaepe

    1. KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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  • Examines questions of educational research publishing theory and practise
  • Presents chapters from leading philosophers of education
  • Addresses production of educational research

Part of the book series: Educational Research (EDRE, volume 11)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Incentives to Embrace Plurality and Diversity in the Study of Education. An Introduction

    • Paul Smeyers, Marc Depaepe
    Pages 1-9

  3. Why Publish?

    • Nicholas C. Burbules
    Pages 11-21

  4. The Lust for Academic Fame: America’s Engine for Scholarly Production

    • David F. Labaree
    Pages 23-31

  5. ‘Relations of Production’ and Their Impact on the Character and Pace of Research and Scholarship

    • David Bridges, Peter Cunningham
    Pages 33-56

  6. Evaluating Productivity in Educational Research: Evaluation Criteria of Rigor and Ethics

    • Lynn Fendler
    Pages 57-75

  7. Times of Elephants: Foucault-Inspired Intervals of Production, Critique, and Accelerated Configurings

    • Lynda Stone, Daniel P. Gibboney
    Pages 77-91

  8. Lost in Narcissism? An Elementary Quantitative, but Deliberately Non-bibliometric Approach to My Own Publication Behaviour

    • Marc Depaepe
    Pages 93-120

  9. Lost in Enthusiasm? An Elementary Qualitative Analysis of 44 Years of Research in Order to Show Why Even Today Educational Historiography is Not an Unnecessary Luxury

    • Marc Depaepe
    Pages 121-140

  10. Understanding Without Words: Visual Representations in Math, Science and Art

    • Kathleen Coessens, Karen François, Jean Paul Van Bendegem
    Pages 141-156

  11. The State’s Spectacles: Education Statistics, Representations of Schooling, and the Federal Government’s Educational Sight

    • Ethan Hutt
    Pages 157-171

  12. From the Global Sixties to the Global 2010s: Communicating About Research in the History of Education (A Perspective from France)

    • Rebecca Rogers
    Pages 173-187

  13. Curiosity and Acquaintance: Ways of Knowing

    • Paul Standish
    Pages 189-204

  14. Education, Fast and Slow

    • Richard Smith
    Pages 205-216

  15. Mastery in the Study of Education Requires Restraint. An Epilogue

    • Paul Smeyers, Marc Depaepe
    Pages 217-227

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 229-233
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About this book

Is educational research chasing the trends one can observe in big sciences, mimicking what happens, some would say successfully, elsewhere in academia? The question in the title of this edited collection took its inspiration from a verse by Goethe: Wer Großes will, muss sich zusammenraffen. In der Beschränkung zeigt sich erst der Meister. Such confinement or limitation that may show mastery does not characterize at all the present state of the educational research publication scene. Instead, there have never been more of such publications which follow each other with an increasing speed. It may therefore be interesting to delve into the reasons of this development that is characteristic of what is published in this field as in many or almost all fields of scholarly work. 

The chapters in this collection address aspects of the (re)presentation, dissemination and reception, and the production and acceleration of educational research. An international group of scholars, philosophers and historians of education, address questions such as ‘Why publish?’, ‘The lust for academic fame’, ‘Why educational historiography is not an unnecessary luxury?’, and ‘Ways of knowing’. The twelve chapters are preceded by an introduction where issues of plurality and diversity in the study of education are at centre stage and followed by an Epilogue written by the Editors of the Springer Series Educational Research. Paul Smeyers and Marc Depaepe offer some final reflections after a journey of two decades that took them and the colleagues participating in the Research Community from 1999 till 2018 floating on the current of the Zeitgeist that carried the Discipline of Education. They claim finally that mastery in the study of education requires restraint.




Editors and Affiliations

  • KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Paul Smeyers, Marc Depaepe

About the editors

Paul Smeyers is since 2018 Emeritus Professor of Philosophy of Education, KU Leuven Belgium. He is the Editor of the international journal Ethics and Education. He co-authored and co-edited a number of books in the area of philosophy of education and interpretative research. His journal articles deal with issues of philosophy of educational research, epistemology, postmodernism, and pays attention amongst others to the legacy of Wittgenstein and Winch for philosophy of education and educational research.


Marc Depaepe (1953) was deputy chancellor at the KU Leuven (2013-2017). Since 2005 co-editor-in-chief of Paedagogica Historica. Former president of the International Standing Conference for the History of Education (1991-1994) and member of the International Academy of Education (2012-). In 2015 he was awarded an honorary doctorate at the University of Latvia. Since 2018 Emeritus Professor (“with duties”) of the KU Leuven and since 2019 Leading Researcher at the University of Latvia, in Riga. Published abundantly on various aspects of international educational historiography and the history of education in Belgium and Congo.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Production, Presentation, and Acceleration of Educational Research: Could Less be More?

  • Editors: Paul Smeyers, Marc Depaepe

  • Series Title: Educational Research

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3017-0

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-3016-3Published: 14 February 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-3019-4Published: 15 February 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-3017-0Published: 01 November 2021

  • Series ISSN: 1878-9447

  • Series E-ISSN: 2543-0653

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 233

  • Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 23 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Education, general, Educational Philosophy, Philosophy of Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Research Methods in Education

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