Emery Marc Petchauer

Emery Marc Petchauer

More from Greg Dimitriadis’ Critical Dispositions: Evidence & Expertise in Education.

The problems facing education and education research today cannot be solved by more and proliferating notions of expertise, linked to more and proliferating fields of inquiry. Rather, they demand an engagement with the world that exceeds any particular explanatory or methodological framework.

On the proliferation of “critical” fields in education:

On one level, the number and range of such fields can provide sharper and sharper perspectives on the question of education inquiry. On another, the number and range of such fields can also work to fragment educators and researchers into more tightly bounded niches–obscuring as much of the world as it helps to reveal.

All from the preface, Greg talking about a kind of “sober humanism.”