Poststructuralism and educational research by Michael A. Peters

Author:Michael A. Peters
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

And so we see a distinctive quality to poststructuralism's conception of the "aims" of educational research, which are. at one level, to produce knowledge. But what "knowledge" has come to mean and what it means to "produce" legitimate knowledge today are matters that poststructuralism refuses to take for granted or view simply in epistemological terms. It wants to ask new questions about the ways in which the justification or legitimation of knowledge becomes inseparable from the matter of who is investigating it, with what motives, with what funding and support, and answerable to which constituencies or agendas.

This perspective, in turn, raises specific questions for the subject of this book: What kind of "knowledge game" is educational research? What are the rules that constitute it? What are the stakes? Who are the players? What are their motivations and purposes? Lyotard provides us with a method for analyzing the "games" or paradigms that define the major legitimate (i.e., fundable, publishable, marketable) approaches of educational research. His critique raises questions about the patterns of funding, the "ownership" of knowledge, the commodification of research, and its relation to a political and economic system: To what extent are the forms of legitimate educational research directed toward maximizing the overall efficiency of that system?

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