Tracing Scientific Cultures as Social Epistemologies in Multi-/Intercultural Educational Research through Citation Practices

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Abstract

This paper investigates how scientific cultures in multi-/intercultural educational research are constituted through processes of self-organization and network-formation, manifested in publication and citation behavior and practices. Drawing on data from the Scimago Journal Ranking networks of selected “cultur*” titled journals in education and Scopus citations, we reveal dominant epistemic clusters and the implicit socio-epistemic constellations within research communities. We use “cultur*” as both an analytical lens in the understanding of discursive networks and object of critical inquiry of its understandings and applications. Drawing on concepts of social epistemologies, we advocate for meta-cultural awareness that resists epistemic standardization and fosters self-critical scientific practice. Our approach reimagines multi-/intercultural educational scholarship as culturally reflexive and future-oriented, opening new horizons of possibility.

Authors

• Barbara Gross, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

• Edwin Keiner, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main