Can We Escape the Program? Inventing Possible-Impossible Futures in/for Australian Educational Research

Autor/in	Gough, Noel
Titel	Can We Escape the Program? Inventing Possible-Impossible Futures in/for Australian Educational Research
Quelle	In: Australian Educational Researcher, 37 (2010) 4, S.9-42 (34 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0311-6999
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Educational Research; Science Fiction; Influence of Technology; Systems Approach; Educational Change; Educational Trends; Futures (of Society); Epistemology; Educational History; Educational Environment; Educational Principles; Educational Philosophy; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Systemischer Ansatz; Bildungsreform; Bildungsentwicklung; Future; Society; Zukunft; Erkenntnistheorie; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Bildungsprinzip; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Australien
Abstract	This essay brings together two lines of inquiry. Firstly, I revisit research on futures in education conducted during the 1980s and re-examine some of the propositions and principles that this research generated about "the future" as an object of inquiry in education. Secondly, I argue that the language of complexity invites us to rethink education in terms of emergence, and potentially destabilises the instrumentalist rationality that "programs" educational systems to privilege orderly and predictable processes culminating in stable output, a potentiality that may be undermined by a pervasive politics of complexity reduction. I conclude by drawing upon these two lines of inquiry to outline some strategies that might resist complexity reduction and catalyse emergence in Australian educational research as preconditions for inventing possible-impossible futures. (Contains 23 endnotes.) (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10