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Language and Educational Research
Author(s) -
Frowe Ian
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
journal of philosophy of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.501
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-9752
pISSN - 0309-8249
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9752.00219
Subject(s) - epistemology , perspective (graphical) , focus (optics) , relation (database) , sociology , function (biology) , direct and indirect realism , point (geometry) , educational research , linguistics , perception , philosophy , pedagogy , computer science , physics , geometry , mathematics , database , artificial intelligence , evolutionary biology , optics , biology
This paper takes as its starting point the two paradigms for educational research discussed by Richard Pring in an earlier edition of this journal. The focus is on the role of language and how it might function in relation to research. Drawing on the work of Charles Taylor it is argued that language can legitimately be conceived as constitutive of certain aspects of reality. Taylor's position, it is suggested, indicates a possible relationship between language and reality which transcends both representationalism and inferentialism. Some indications of the implications of this perspective for education are briefly considered.