Educational Research: Ethics, Social Justice, and Funding Dynamics

1. Educational Research: A Tale of Tensions and Opportunities.- 2. Ethics, Epistemology and the Post-Humboldtian University.- 3. The Assessment of Academic Research in the UK: An Ethical Analysis. 4. Between Research Ethics and Other Interests: Challenges for Historians of Education.- 5. Research Ethics and the Case of Positionality.- 6. Math and Music: Slow and Not For Profit.- 7. Competing Values Within Language Education Research.- 8. Epistemology, Ethics and Educational Research.- 9. Taking the Long View: Longitudinal Surveys and the Construction of Educational Inequality in America.- 10. Validity-versus-Reliability Tradeoffs and the Ethics of Educational Research.- 11. Schwab's Challenge and the Unfulfilled Promise of Action Research.- 12. On the Commodification of Educational Research.- 13. The Funding of Higher Education: Lessons from Europe's Past.- 14. The Furnace of Instrumental Reason.- 15. Ovide Decroly (1871-1932): The Prototype of a Modern Scientist, Also in the Context of Funding?.- 16. The Gates Foundation MET Research Project as a Case of Philanthrocapitalism.- 17. We're (not) Only in it for the Money (Frank Zappa). The Financial Structure of STEM and STEAM Research.- 18. Dynamising the Dynamics of Funding and Investment Conditions: Coaching Emerging Researchers for Publishing in Intercultural Settings.

Paul Smeyers is Professor at Ghent University and at KU Leuven, both in Belgium, and Honorary Professor at Stellenbosch University (South Africa). He teaches philosophy of education and methodology of the Geisteswissenschaften (Qualitative/Interpretative Research Methods). He is the author of numerous articles focusing on Wittgenstein's relevance for philosophy of education, on postmodernism, and on issues of the methodology of educational research. He is President of the International Network of Philosophers of Education and link-convenor for Network 13, Philosophy of Education, European Educational Research Association. He is the Editor of Ethics and Education (Taylor and Francis). Together with Nigel Blake, Richard Smith, and Paul Standish he co-authored three books, Thinking Again, Education in an Age of Nihilism, The Therapy of Education, and with Michael Peters and Nick Burbules Showing and Doing. With Marc Depaepe he co-edited the series Educational Research (Springer, thus far 10 books). Recent publications include a co-authored book with Richard Smith (Making Sense of Education and EducationalRresearch, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2014), a collection co-edited with David Bridges, Morwenna Griffiths, and Nick Burbules (International handbook of interpretation in educational research methods, 2 vols., Springer, 2015) and a collection he edited for Springer, International Handbook of Philosophy of Education (2 volumes, to be published in 2018). His latest work focuses anew on Wittgenstein's legacy for philosophy of education. Some of that is included in the collection edited by Michael Peters and Jeff Stickney (A Companion to Wittgenstein on Education. Springer, 2017). Attention to Smeyers' contributions in this area are discussed in the Foreword (David Bakhurst), the introductory chapter (Editors), and in a separate chapter by Paul Standish of this collection.

Marc Depaepe is Professor of History of Education and History of