Educational Research

This provocative book brings together social problems, philosophy and history of education in a unique way. The editors use 'Educationalization' to identify the trend toward thinking about education as the focal point for addressing larger human problems.

1. Introduction: Pushing Social Responsibilities - The Educationalization of Social Problems.- 2. About Pedagogization - From the Perspective of the History of Education.- 3. The Educationalization of the Modern World - Progress, Passion, and the Protestant Promise of Education.- 4. Educationalising Trends in Societies of Control: Assessments, Problem-Based Learning, and Empowerment.- 5. Educationalization in a USA Present: A Historicist Rendering.- 6. Cultural Capital as Educational Capital - the Need for a Reflection on the Educationalisation of Cultural Taste.- 7. The ''Educationalisation'' of the Language of Progressivism Exploring the Nature of a True Alternative.- 8. Parenting and the Art of Being a Parent.- 9. The Educationalisation of Social Problems and the Educationalisation of Educational Research - the Example of Citizenship Education.- 10. Higher Education and Hyperreality.- 11. Education for the Knowledge Economy.- 12. The Social, Psychological and Education Sciences: From Educationalization to Pedagogicalization of the Family and the Child.- 13. ''It Makes us Believe That it is About our Freedom''- Notes on the Irony of the Learning Apparatus.- 14. To Schools With the Poets: the Pädagogisierung of Philosophy.- 15. The Education Concept.- 16. Afterword.- Notes on Contributors.- Index.