The Ethos of Critical Research and the Idea of a Coming Research Community

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ID8858482
AuthorsMary Simons (0000-0003-4694-0586, KU Leuven), Jan Masschelein (0000-0003-2850-1571, KU Leuven), Kerlijn Quaghebeur (KU Leuven)
Year2005
Volume37
Issue6
Pages817-832
Publication date2005-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEducational Philosophy and Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-1857 • E-ISSN: 1469-5812
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1469-5812.2005.00160.x
OpenAlexW2131186123
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited12

Critical educational research offers the researcher a position and an ethos of comfort. Even the declared recognition of the relativity of principles, norms or criteria so characteristic of much critical research does not prevent it from looking immediately for a way out of this uncomfortable situation i.e. to keep to the idea that comfort (for the researcher) is needed and desirable. However, we suggest that this uncomfortable condition is constitutive for critical educational research and may be even for education as such. Therefore the article can be considered as a genealogical analysis of this comfortable critical research, in which we show how the birth of the milieu of the modern school goes together with the instauration of two forms of a comfortable research ‘ethos’: a research ethos rooted in a pastoral milieu and a research ethos rooted in a bureaucratic milieu. In the last section of the article we indicate that another ‘experimental’ ethos of research is possible, including the acceptance of discomfort. This is the ethos of a critical researcher as an inhabitant of a coming research community and as being exposed to the present

Bureaucracy · Critical theory · Educational research · Epistemology · Ethos · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Adult and Continuing Education Topics · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Philosophy · Religious Education and Schools

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