Deng, Zongyi;
(2023)
Practice, pedagogy and education as a discipline: Getting beyond close-to-practice research.
British Educational Research Journal
10.1002/berj.3951.
(In press).
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Abstract
The British Educational Research Association (BERA) has promulgated a concept of close-to-practice research that is seen as vital to defending and promoting education as an academic discipline. However, what is overlooked are the questions of what education is for and what educational practice is—questions that need to be addressed for any research aiming to understand and improve educational practice. Informed by Robin Alexander's conception of pedagogy, continental Pädagogik and Didaktik and Anglo-American sources, this paper advances an alternative, different way of thinking about close-to-practice research and education as a discipline. It makes a case for education as a distinctive discipline directed towards the understanding and development of practice for the advancement of education. This discipline necessitates an educational and Didaktik way of thinking and theorising, centred on the questions of what education is for, what educational practice is and how practice is supported and developed. This way of thinking and theorising calls for three interrelated lines of research that are significant and matter to practice, particularly within the current context of the National Curriculum in England.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Practice, pedagogy and education as a discipline: Getting beyond close-to-practice research |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1002/berj.3951 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3951 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2023 The Authors. British Educational Research Journal published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Educational Research Association. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | close-to-practice research, Didaktik, education as a discipline, Pädagogik, pedagogy |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10184093 |
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