Includes bibliographic references and index

Introduction: The question of method in philosophy of education / Claudia Ruitenberg -- The strict analysis and the open discussion / Katariina Holma -- `Anything you can do i can do better` : dialectical argument in philosophy of education / Daniel Vokey -- Education and selfhood : a phenomenological investigation / Michael Bonnett -- Examples as method? My attempts to understand assessment and fairness (in the spirit of the later Wittgenstein) / Andrew Davis -- Witnessing deconstruction in education : why quasi-transcendentalism matters / Gert Biesta -- Under the name of method : on Jacques Rancie?re`s presumptive tautology / Charles Bingham -- Distance and defamiliarisation : translation as philosophical method / Claudia Ruitenberg -- Between the lines : philosophy, text and conversation / Richard Smith -- Method, philosophy of education and the sphere of the practico-inert / Marianna Papastephanou.

Educational research addresses a plethora of questions. And yet many any of the most pressing questions that confront education simply cannot be answered with empirical data.

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