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

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.

1 Incentives to embrace plurality and diversity in the study of education. An Introduction.- 2 Why Publish?.- 3 The Lust for Academic Fame: America’s Engine for Scholarly Production.- 4 ‘Relations of production’ and their impact on the character and pace of research and scholarship.- 5 Evaluating Productivity in Educational Research: Criteria of Rigor and Ethics.- 6 Times of elephants: Foucault-inspired intervals of production, critique, and accelerated configurings.- 7 Lost in Narcissism? An elementary quantitative, but deliberately non-bibliometric approach to my own publication behavior.- 8 Lost in Enthusiasm? An elementary qualitative analysis of forty-four years of research in order to show why even today educational historiography is not an unnecessary luxury.- 9 Understanding without words: visual representations in math, science and art.- 10 The State’s Spectacles: Education Statistics, Representations of Schooling, and the Federal Government’s Educational Sight.- 11 From the global sixties to the global 2010s: communicating about research in the history of education (a perspective from France).- 12 Curiosity and Acquaintance: Ways of Knowing.- 13 Education, fast and slow.- 14 Mastery in the study of education requires restraint. Epilogue.