Meaning of Criticality in Education Research

Ashley Simpson is Assistant Professor at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China. His research specialises in intercultural education, discourse theories and methods, and critical approaches to democracy. Fred Dervin is Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He also holds honorary and visiting professorships in Australia, Canada, China, Luxembourg, Malaysia and Sweden. He specializes in intercultural communication education, the sociology of multiculturalism and student and academic mobility.

• 1. Introduction: Beyond Impotent Criticality in Education Research?.- Part I. Reflecting on and Defining Criticality in Education.- 2. Developing Anglo-Centred Academic Literacy: Problematizing Understandings of Criticality.- 3. Criticality Within the “École de la République”: A Study of a French Educational Programme Based on Scientific Research.- 4. Reflections on Narratives of Other’s Lives in Critical Educational Research.- Part II. Beyond Just Criticality?.- 5. Critical Online Learning Networks of Teachers: Communality and Collegiality as Contingent Elements.- 6. Moving Forward with Poetry Lessons: Exploring How Poetry Can Stimulate Creativity and Criticality in English Secondary Schools.- Part III. Different Ways of ‘Doing’ Criticality in Education (Research).- 7. Historical Bodies and Spaces in Criticality Practices: Revisiting Interview Data from Upper Secondary History Classrooms in Sweden, Russia and Australia.- 8. A Practitioner-Research Study of Criticality Development in an Academic English Language Programme.- 9. Afterword: Beyond the Naïve Mantra of Criticality in Education (Research)?.