1st Edition
Critical Dispositions Evidence and Expertise in Education
By Greg Dimitriadis
Copyright 2012
158 Pages
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Routledge
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Set against the current proliferation of global "difference" and economic realignment, Critical Dispositions explores the notions of "evidence" and "expertise" in times of material scarcity. Both have come to the forefront of national and international debate in education as "evidence" and "evidence-based" research and pedagogical practices continue as major trends in educational policy. Author... Read more
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Humanism and the Production of Expertise
2. Phenomenology, Evidence, and Aesthetics
3. Living Vulnerability in Neoliberal Times
4. On Never Getting It Right
5. Revisiting the Question of Evidence
6. Business Lessons
Moving Ahead: Final Thoughts
Biography
Greg Dimitriadis is Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy, University at Buffalo, SUNY.
"This is an important book that provocatively raises challenges all sociologists of education should face. There is a welcome focus on big ideas from beyond the tunnel vision of much educational research." —British Journal of Sociology of Education
