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dc.contributor.authorHodge, Steven
dc.contributor.authorParker, Stephen
dc.contributor.editorLynch, Julianne
dc.contributor.editorRowlands, Julie
dc.contributor.editorGale, Trevor
dc.contributor.editorParker, Stephen
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-13T22:05:16Z
dc.date.available2023-04-13T22:05:16Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.isbn9780367193829en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.4324/9780429202063-8en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/398722
dc.description.abstractThe concept of social imaginaries is beginning to appear in education research, especially among critical researchers. In this literature, reference is consistently made to the work of Anderson, Castoriadis, Appadurai and Taylor. Among these thinkers, imaginaries are the shared yet tacit understandings about people, society and the world that are conveyed in a variety of ways including images, stories, sayings and popular ideas. Education researchers sometimes deploy the concept in investigations of interactions between policy and practice with a particular emphasis on what is taken to be the problematic spread and implementation of ‘neoliberal’ ideas in education practices. Comparison of the theory of social imaginaries with its appropriation in education research suggests that a number of researchers use the concept in a relatively limited and unjustifiably prescriptive way. In this chapter, we take the work of Charles Taylor as a reference point to examine this development of a methodology of imaginaries in critical education research. Taylor’s account places imaginaries within the broader methodological notion of ‘the background’ which refers to a complex, layered cultural construction. A survey of Taylor’s account of ‘modernity’ raises questions about the isolated use of the concept of social imaginaries seen in some education research and about the assumption social imaginaries can be the subject of intervention to bring about preferred educational futures. We argue that before the concept of social imaginaries can effectively inform methodologies for understanding and criticising education practices, researchers need to make more systematic use of the concept, in particular taking into account origins, background and tractability.en_US
dc.description.peerreviewedYesen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.publisher.placeAbingdon, United Kingdomen_US
dc.relation.ispartofbooktitlePractice Methodologies in Education Researchen_US
dc.relation.ispartofchapter8en_US
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom144en_US
dc.relation.ispartofpageto165en_US
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEducation systemsen_US
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3903en_US
dc.titleSocial imaginaries in education researchen_US
dc.typeBook chapteren_US
dc.type.descriptionB1 - Chaptersen_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationHodge, S; Parker, S, Social imaginaries in education research, Practice Methodologies in Education Research, 2020, pp. 144-165en_US
dc.date.updated2020-10-26T23:34:58Z
dc.description.versionAccepted Manuscript (AM)en_US
gro.rights.copyright© 2020 Taylor & Francis. This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Practice Methodologies in Education Research on 25 October 2019, available online: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429202063en_US
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