Paul Smeyers and a perspective on educational research : in dialogue with Maurizio Toscano
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- Maurizio Toscano and Paulus Smeyers (UGent)
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- In academic circles, the word perspective is often used to capture the sense of holding, applying or offering a particular world-view. Furthermore, the etymology of the word – with its connotations of looking clearly through something – remains alive and well in the rather clichéd use of the word lens to describe a theoretical or methodological research instrument through which one encounters the world. Thus, almost by stealth the word perspective seems to have also taken up the burden of scientific instrumentalism. Nothing new is being claimed here. Heidegger, in his essay The Age of the World Picture (1977), already famously examined not only what we might mean by concepts like world-view or perspective in the context suggested here, but also how the very possibility of having such a resolute, collective perspective has emerged hand-in-hand with the metaphysics of modernity, resulting in a kind of narrowing of the mind. It is fitting then, that we reflect upon the distinguishing features of scientific and social scientific research in this chapter.
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8750630
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- Toscano, Maurizio, and Paulus Smeyers. “Paul Smeyers and a Perspective on Educational Research : In Dialogue with Maurizio Toscano.” Theory and Philosophy in Education Research : Methodological Dialogues, edited by John Quay et al., Routledge, 2018, pp. 144–57, doi:10.4324/9781351176118-10.
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- Toscano, M., & Smeyers, P. (2018). Paul Smeyers and a perspective on educational research : in dialogue with Maurizio Toscano. In J. Quay, J. Bleazby, S. A. Stolz, M. Toscano, & R. S. Webster (Eds.), Theory and philosophy in education research : methodological dialogues (pp. 144–157). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351176118-10
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- Toscano, Maurizio, and Paulus Smeyers. 2018. “Paul Smeyers and a Perspective on Educational Research : In Dialogue with Maurizio Toscano.” In Theory and Philosophy in Education Research : Methodological Dialogues, edited by John Quay, Jennifer Bleazby, Steven A. Stolz, Maurizio Toscano, and R. Scott Webster, 144–57. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351176118-10.
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- Toscano, Maurizio, and Paulus Smeyers. 2018. “Paul Smeyers and a Perspective on Educational Research : In Dialogue with Maurizio Toscano.” In Theory and Philosophy in Education Research : Methodological Dialogues, ed by. John Quay, Jennifer Bleazby, Steven A. Stolz, Maurizio Toscano, and R. Scott Webster, 144–157. London: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781351176118-10.
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- 1.Toscano M, Smeyers P. Paul Smeyers and a perspective on educational research : in dialogue with Maurizio Toscano. In: Quay J, Bleazby J, Stolz SA, Toscano M, Webster RS, editors. Theory and philosophy in education research : methodological dialogues. London: Routledge; 2018. p. 144–57.
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- [1]M. Toscano and P. Smeyers, “Paul Smeyers and a perspective on educational research : in dialogue with Maurizio Toscano,” in Theory and philosophy in education research : methodological dialogues, J. Quay, J. Bleazby, S. A. Stolz, M. Toscano, and R. S. Webster, Eds. London: Routledge, 2018, pp. 144–157.
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author = {{Toscano, Maurizio and Smeyers, Paulus}},
booktitle = {{Theory and philosophy in education research : methodological dialogues}},
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language = {{eng}},
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title = {{Paul Smeyers and a perspective on educational research : in dialogue with Maurizio Toscano}},
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year = {{2018}},
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