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Educational Sciences: A Crossroad for Dialogue among Disciplines

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 January 2018

Erik De Corte
Erik De Corte*
Affiliation:
Center for Instructional Psychology and Technology (CIP&T), University of Leuven, Dekenstraat 2 – 3773, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium. Email: erik.decorte@kuleuven.be
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Abstract

This article illustrates that due to the complexity of educational practices and of the educational system, their scientific study constitutes a crossroads for dialogue and possible conflicts among a variety of disciplines. The article focuses on school education. A first illustration shows how analyzing and improving classroom practices requires collaboration with and among different sub-disciplines of psychology. In the next section the recent domain of educational neuroscience is discussed as a crossroads of educational science, psychology and neuroscience. Thereafter, it is argued that research on mathematics education calls on the contribution of many disciplines such as mathematics, pedagogy, the psychology of cognition and math-related beliefs, and anthropology. The final example focuses on educational technology that requires interaction between educational science, psychology, computer science, economics, etc.

Type
Conflicts and Dialogues between Science and Humanities
Information
European Review , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , May 2018 , pp. 262 - 271
Copyright
© Academia Europaea 2018 

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