The last fifteen years have seen much conceptual and methodological innovation in
research on education and learning across the lifecourse, bringing both fresh insights and …

In Disrupting Boundaries in Education and Research, six educational researchers explore
together the potentialities of transdisciplinary research that de-centres human behaviour and …

Ideas relating to educational policy and practice are underpinned by recourse to
foundational disciplines, particularly philosophy and the social sciences. Educational …

In this paper we provide an overview of the characteristics of major educational research
paradigms shaping contemporary educational research, ranging from the traditional …

New materialist and posthuman research methodologies are quickly gaining traction in
educational research. According to its proponents, new materialism takes us to radically new …

In this paper I focus on a split within the field of educational research between those who
approach education as an activity or practice governed by cause–effect relationships and …

Generally educational research is grounded in the empirical traditions of the social sciences
(commonly called quantitative and qualitative methods) and is as such distinguished from …

Over the past two decades, western scholars increasingly have embraced cultural-historical
activity theory as a framework for thinking about knowing and learning in school and …

The paper explores the fabrications of human kinds in pedagogical research. It examines
the social and psychological sciences of education as producing independent spaces for the …

Tara Fenwicka* and Paolo Landrib aSchool of Education University of Stirling, Stirling, UK;
bCNR-IRPPS (Istituto di Ricerche sulla Popolazione e le Politiche Sociali), Italy Research in …