Educational Research: Networks and Technologies

There have always been networks in the context of educational research as well as particular technologies. Yet recent developments in ICT have put their mark on contemporary education and on educational research and more in general on knowledge and unders

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Educational Research: Networks and Technologies Edited by

Paul Smeyers and Marc Depaepe Universiteit Gent and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Belgium

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ISBN 978-1-4020-6612-2 (HB) ISBN 978-1-4020-6613-9 (e-book) Published by Springer, P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands. www.springer.com

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CONTENTS

Introduction Paul Smeyers and Marc Depaepe

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1. Networks and Technologies: On the Continuity and Change of Educational Research and Practice Paul Smeyers and Marc Depaepe 2. www.thedevelopmentoknowledge.net David Bridges and Michael Watts

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3. Networks, Information Politics and the New Paradigm of Social Production Michael A. Peters and Daniel Araya

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4. Networks as Spaces and Places: Their Importance for Educational Research Collaboration Nicholas C. Burbules

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5. The Role of Electronic Reading and Writing in Networking and in Educational Research: What Difference Does It Make? Bert Lambeir and Stefan Ramaekers

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6. On the Position of the Educationalist Intellectual in the Information Age: Shouldn’t We Become Meta-modern Artists? Kathleen Coessens and Jean Paul van Bendegem

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7. The Hidden Homogenization of Educational Research: On Opening up the Sphere of Responsiveness Paul Smeyers

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8. Network, Critique, Conversation: Towards a Rethinking of Educational Research Methods Training Naomi Hodgson and Paul Standish

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9. Research in Motion: Doctoral Programmes at the Network University Goele Cornelissen, Maarten Simons and Jan Masschelein

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10. Public Space in a Network Society? A Note on the Call for Public Space (Philosophy) in Education Today Nancy Vansieleghem

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11. ‘Erasmus the Albatross’: The Transmission of Ideas as Information James D. Marshall

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12. Penelope’s Work: Only Disconnect Richard Smith

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13. Normalizing Parenthood Once Again: What It Means to be a Parent Today Geertrui Smedts 14. True Love Waits: Abstinence Education in the USA Ceri Black

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15. Punishment as an Educational Technology: A Form of Pedagogical Inertia in Schools? Frederik Herman, Marc Depaepe, Frank Simon and Angelo Van Gorp

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Notes on Contributors

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Index

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INTRODUCTION PAUL SMEYERS AND MARC DEPAEPE

THE FRAMEWORK OF THE COLLABORATIVE PROJECT This is the third book that resulted from the close collaboration within the Research Community ‘Philosophy and History of the Discipline of Education: Evaluation and Evolution of the Criteria for Educational Research’, established by the Research Foundation F