Call for Paper - Vol. 16, n. 1/2025

The year 2025 marks the 90th anniversary of the publication of “L'expèrimentation en pèdagogie” by Raimond Buyse (1889-1974), a professor at the Catholic University of Louvain, where he founded and directed the Laboratory of Experimental Pedagogy. To him we owe the openness to the scientific dimension of pedagogical discourse and the application of empirical-experimental methodologies in education. His well-known formula “tayloriser l'instruction pour valoriser l'éducation” constitutes an effective synthesis of his thought.

This anniversary provides a valuable opportunity to explore the question of pedagogy as a science between theory and empirics, as well as to explore issues and problems related to experimentation in educational contexts at both methodological and ethical levels. While we can now consider the antithesis between pedagogy and experimentation to be outdated, the debate remains open around the use of empirical-experimental methods for the study of educational processes and systems; the nature of the scientific evidence to which educational research can have access; and the use of pedagogical research data for the purposes of public policy in education and training.

This issue aims to explore, by collecting reflections and experiences, pedagogy as a science whose object is the “educational fact.” That is, education with its specificities and peculiarities, in the continuous tension between “being” and “ought to be,” between quantitative and qualitative methods, between synchronic and diachronic dimensions, between methodological rigor and respect for the person. All this, in the awareness of the inadequacy of a single approach - theoretical, historical-comparative, empirical-experimental - with respect to the complexity of education in the sustainable and inclusive “society 5.0.” Contributions may, in addition, address issues, problems and perspectives of the 'scientific' study of educational phenomena, respect for the conditions proper to the scientific method in educational research, and the appropriateness of methods and tools with respect to the peculiarity of the object of study, together with consistency with pedagogical epistemology and respect for the axiological and ethical nature of the objects-subjects of study of pedagogy.

 

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Languages: English, French, Italian

Max Lenght:between 25,000 and 35,000 keystrokes (including spaces and counting abstracts and bibliographical references)

Deadline: March 15th, 2025