The Imperative of Social Foundations to (Urban) Education Research and Practice
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Title
The Imperative of Social Foundations to (Urban) Education Research and Practice
Abstract/Description
This conceptual article aims to clarify the important relationship between the fields of social foundations of education (SFE) and urban education (UE). We argue that SFE (a) enables more precise understandings of urban in one’s preparation to practice in or conduct research with implications for urban schooling contexts and (b) strengthens one’s capacity to identify the questions and pedagogical and methodological approaches central to enacting justice-oriented education research and practice. This article calls attention to three specific SFE subdisciplines—history, philosophy, and sociology of education—as necessary complements to any education program of study, building our argument from an examination of SFE’s relationship to UE specifically. Accessing multidisciplinary perspectives to deeply understand and address vexing challenges posed by (urban) space and place is a central feature of this article.
Author/creator
Date
In publication
Volume
49
Issue
5
Pages
369-375
Resource type
Background/Context
Medium
Print
Background/context type
Conceptual
Keywords
Open access/free-text available
Yes
Peer reviewed
Yes
ISSN
0013-189X
Citation
Warren, C. A., & Venzant Chambers, T. T. (2020). The Imperative of Social Foundations to (Urban) Education Research and Practice. Educational Researcher, 49(5), 369–375. https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X20923289
Resource status/form
Published Text
Scholarship genre
Theoretical
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