Philosophy and Educational Research: Boundaries, Breaches and Bridges

This pre-conference research seminar (PhD course) explores recent changes in the field of education and what implications these changes can (and should) mean for our understanding of the nature of educational science. The changes include a massive growth of the field, mainly related to teacher education research; the dissolving of the traditional disciplinary boundaries; the evidence-based movement which professes a largely a-theoretical approach, and the concomitant changes in the status of educational research. Using meta-theoretical perspectives to discuss and portray the field we shall address three main issues

• The twin problems of fragmentation of the field and the need to keep it together, coherent and identifiable as education
• The notions of disciplinarity, multidisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity and their implications for educational research
• Different conceptualizations of the nature of educational science, its legitimate aims and scope.

Speakers:
– Prof. David Bridges, University of East Anglia
– Prof. Moira von Wright, Ersta Skönberg Högskola
– Assoc. Prof. Harald Jarning, University of Oslo
– Prof. Tone Kvernbekk, University of Oslo
– Prof. Daniel Sundberg, Linnaeus University

Please email torill.strand@iped.uio.no if you want to attend