What Do Philosophers of Education Do?

This volume of essays demonstrates and comments on philosophical methods in educational research. Offers a clear picture of what philosophers do when they study education Brings together a series of essays from an international cast of contributors from Canada, UK, Finland, and Cyprus Examines a range of new and established philosophical methods which can be used in educational research Demonstrates how philosophy of education can be understood methodologically Draws from both Continental and Analytical traditions Fills a gap in the research methods literature in education and the social sciences

This volume of essays demonstrates and comments on philosophicalmethods in educational research.* Offers a clear picture of what philosophers do when they studyeducation* Brings together a series of essays from an international castof contributors from Canada, UK, Finland, and Cyprus* Examines a range of new and established philosophical methodswhich can be used in educational research* Demonstrates how philosophy of education can be understoodmethodologically* Draws from both Continental and Analytical traditions* Fills a gap in the research methods literature in education andthe social sciences

Notes on Contributors viiForeword ixPaul Standish1 Introduction: The Question of Method in Philosophy of Education 1Claudia Ruitenberg2 The Strict Analysis and the Open Discussion 10Katariina Holma3 'Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better': Dialectical Argument in Philosophy of Education 24Daniel Vokey4 Education and Selfhood: A Phenomenological Investigation 41Michael Bonnett5 Examples as Method? My Attempts to Understand Assessment and Fairness (in the Spirit of the Later Wittgenstein) 54Andrew Davis6 Witnessing Deconstruction in Education: Why Quasi-Transcendentalism Matters 73Gert Biesta7 Under the Name of Method: On Jacques Rancie`re's Presumptive Tautology 87Charles Bingham8 Distance and Defamiliarisation: Translation as Philosophical Method 103Claudia Ruitenberg9 Between the Lines: Philosophy, Text and Conversation 118Richard Smith10 Method, Philosophy of Education and the Sphere of the Practico-Inert 131Marianna PapastephanouIndex 150