On Knowledge Organization of Educational Research: Comparative and International Mapping of Research Contributions and Publishing

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Research publication and communication is vital in organizing knowledge contributions in a scientific field. However, science and technology studies have shown that this differs in different research fields (Whitley, 2000) and that such fields move in tandem with social and political changes (Nowotny, 2003). Given this, the purpose of this symposium is to analyse educational research publishing from an international and comparative perspective. We are not interested in performative measures. Instead we are mapping knowledge organization in order to analyze communication nets and nodes (Persson, 1994). Our cases are Germany, Italy, Sweden and the US. Our analyses intend to advance academic discourses on knowledge contributions and research cooperation in the field of education in its specificities.

Sub Unit

• World Education Research Association

Chair

• Sverker S:son Lindblad, University of Gothenburg

Papers

• On Nodes and Nets in Educational Research Publishing Over Time and Place - Sverker S:son Lindblad, University of Gothenburg; Daniel Petterson, University of Gävle; Katarina Samuelsson, Gothenburg University

• Nodes and Nets in Educational Research Publishing: National Cases in International Contexts - Edwin Keiner, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main; Barbara Gross, Chemnitz University of Technology; Sverker S:son Lindblad, University of Gothenburg; Daniel Petterson, University of Gävle; Katarina Samuelsson, Gothenburg University; Thomas S. Popkewitz, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Research on Educational Research Networking and International Publishing - Sverker S:son Lindblad, University of Gothenburg

Discussant

• Alebachew Kemisso