Past, Present, and Future Possibilities for Philosophy and History of Education, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018 Finding Space and Time for Research

On the occasion of the retirement of Paul Smeyers, this book considers the state and status of the philosophy and history of education today.

Over the last 20 years, the conditions in which research takes place have changed considerably. They have done so in ways that are often less than favourable to disciplines such as history and philosophy of education, and the space and time for the practices that constitute these disciplines ? of reading, of writing, of collegiality ? is increasingly under pressure. During this time, the Research Community on the History and Philosophy of Educational Research has convened annually to bring its critical lenses to bear on these emergent conditions and to suggest ways that educational research might, or ought to, be done otherwise.

As co-founder and co-convenor of the Research Community, this volume explores and recounts Paul Smeyers' development of Wittgensteinian scholarship and its legacy in education, his formative role in the development of philosophy of education as an international field, his many international collaborations, the ?useless? educational-philosophical deepening of concepts, and the wider educational-philosophical import of this.

This gives rise to consideration of the failure of these fields to halt the changes in the governance and status of the university that threatens them, and those practices that remain and that are emerging in academia that we wish to protect, to pass on to the next generation of researchers in these fields.

Preface: Paul Smeyers and the Dutch Connection; Bas Levering

1. Introduction: Reminders Assembling a Picture of Paul Smeyers; Stefan Ramaekers and Naomi Hodgson

2. At the Intersection of Anecdotal Stories and Great Narratives: Reflections on the Cooperation between Educational Historians and Educational Philosophers; Marc Depaepe and Frank Simon

3. Seeing the Points of Connection; Richard Smith and Paul Standish

4. The University as Pedagogical Form: Public Study, Responsibility, Mondialisation; Jan Masschelein and Maarten Simons

5. Philosophies of Hospitality: Toward Perpetual Peace and Freedom; Lynn Fendler

6. Why, Perhaps, Philosophers of Education (and Other Educational Researchers) ‘Leave Everything as it is’; David Bridges

7. Truth ‘after Postmodernism’: Wittgenstein and Postfoundationalism in Philosophy of Education; Michael Peters

8. ‘Plowden’ at 50 — R.S. Peters’ Response to Educational Progressivism; Stefaan Cuypers

9. Upon the Academic Philosopher Caught in the Fly-bottle; Jean Paul Van Bendegem

10. Postscript: Humanistic Study, Collaboration, and Interdisciplinarity:  A Dialogue on the Leuven Research Community; Nicholas C. Burbules and Lynda Stone

Stefan Ramaekers is Associate Professor in the Laboratory for Education and Society, KU Leuven. He studied Educational Sciences and Philosophy at KU Leuven (Belgium) and obtained a PhD in Educational Sciences in the field of Philosophy of Education about forms of skepticism in educational theory and practices. Over the last years, his research has mainly focused on a critical investigation of the discourse of parenting and the parent-child relationship. Together with Prof. Judith Suissa of the Institute of Education (University College London) he published the book The Claims of Parenting. Reasons, responsibility, and society (Springer). Together with Dr. Naomi Hodgson (Liverpool Hope University) he is currently researching figurations of parenting in cultural representations, such as film. Their book Philosophical presentations of raising children: The grammar of upbringing is forthcoming (Autumn 2018; Palgrave).

Naomi Hodgson is Lecturer in Education Studies at Liverpool Hope University, UK, and Visiting Researcher in the Laboratory for Education, Culture, and Society, KU Leuven. Her research, situated in the field of educational philosophy, focuses on the relationship between education, governance, and subjectivity, particularly in relation to the figures of the researcher and the parent. Her current research project, funded by the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust, is entitled 'The researcher disposition as today’s mode of subjectivation: the case of parenting', and she is currently completing the manuscript of Philosophical Presentations of Raising Children: The Grammar of Upbringing, co-authored with Stefan Ramaekers (KU Leuven) and due to be published in 2018. She has recently collaborated with Joris Vlieghe (Aberdeen) and Piotr Zamojski (Gdansk) to write a Manifesto for a Post-Critical Pedagogy (Punctum Books, 2018). Naomi is author of Philosophy and Theory in Education: Writing in the Margin (co-authored wi

Provides in-depth accounts of the internationalisation of philosophy and history of education

Challenges the assumption that the value of research lies in its impact

Offers first-hand accounts of the genesis of Wittgensteinian philosophy of education

Acknowledges the limits of the potential of educational research for educational practice

Brings out insights into the fruitful collaboration between philosophy and history of education

Asks the difficult question of whether academia still offers a fruitful environment for philosophy and history of education