Making a Difference in Theory : The Theory Question in Education and the Education Question in Theory (Hardcover)

Part I: The Contextual Presence of Theory  The Empirical and the Political 'Fact' of Theory in the Social and Educational Sciences Thomas S. Popkewitz.  Challenges of Educational Theory in the Age of Knowledge Capitalism Lisbeth Lundahl.  Between Universally Claimed Theory and Common Understanding: Theoretical Knowledge in Education Daniel Trohler.  The Changing Field of Educational Studies and the Task of Theorising Education Joannes Bellmann  Part II: The Practice of Doing Theory  Theories have Consequences, Don’t They? On the Moral Nature of Educational Theory and Research Deborah Gallagher.  Bildung and Educational Language: Talking of 'the Self' in Anglo-American Education Norm Friesen.  On the Theoretical Limits of Education Alexander M. Sidorkin  Part III: Refractions on and Agendas for Theory  Educational Theory and the Practice of Critique Robin Usher and Anna Anderson.  The Excess of Theory: On the Functions of Educational Theory in Apparent Reality Tomasz Szkudlarek.  Speaking Educationally about Teacher Education Anne M. Phelan.  Teaching Theories Lynn Fendler.  Towards an Agenda for Theoretical Interventions in Education Julie Allan, Richard Edwards and Gert Biesta.