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This volume pursues two central objectives. On the one hand, it is necessary to sharpen our analytical tools in order to better appreciate the term governance in the educational field. To this end the five different paradigmatic approaches on governance as well as different topics and sectors shall be confronted/contrasted and related to each other. In the course of this process, the particularly critical educational issue of the relation between academic analyses of governance and the so called governmentality studies will be discussed. On the other hand, the so far marginally studied issue of change in the 'educational science order' will be addressed. The transformations mentioned affect the nucleus of the pedagogical understanding of education. The promise of a greater adequacy to the needs and interests of those addressed by education, because more flexible, more user-oriented, more precise control of effects presents a challenge to educational science and pedagogy. This marks the interface of "governance" and "performance" on a systems or organization level (Soguel/Jaccard, 2008; Simons, 2007) with the individual as the subject of education.

Examines the decision by the State School Board for Kansas to delete the topic of Darwinian evolution from the required curriculum for high school biology, and the topic of big-bang cosmology from the required curriculum for high school physics.

"Die Systemtheorie wird als Metatheorie empirischer Sozialforschung in der Soziologie inzwischen breit diskutiert. Zu verzeichnen ist eine Normalisierung in der Diskussion um eine Empirisierung ihrer als abstrakt geltenden Theoriearchitektur. Dennoch sind systemtheoretisch argumentierende Projekte und eine entsprechende methodologische Diskussion in der Erziehungswissenschaft bislang die Ausnahme geblieben. Der Autor schlägt vor, die Systemtheorie für die Entwicklung einer reflexiven erziehungswissenschaftlichen Methodologie des Pädagogischen zu nutzen. Er zeigt, wie es mit ihr gelingen kann, ein zentrales Bezugsproblem erziehungswissenschaftlicher Forschung methodologisch zu kontrollieren: die Aufgabe, ein soziales Geschehen, an das hohe normative Erwartungen geknüpft werden, mit sozialwissenschaftlichen Mitteln gegenstandstheoretisch und empirisch in den Blick zu bekommen. Weder darf durch zu viel Nähe zu diesen Erwartungen pädagogisches Wissen verdoppelt werden noch durch zu viel sozialwissenschaftliche Distanz der Gegenstand aus den Augen geraten. Die Leistungsfähigkeit dieser Forschungsperspektive wird an einem Ausschnitt aus einem Transkript verdeutlicht, das den Besuch einer 9. Realschulklasse in einer KZ-Gedenkstätte dokumentiert. Gezeigt wird, wie es mit dieser Perspektive gelingen kann, neue Sichtweisen auf die normative Aufgabenstruktur pädagogischer Handlungsfelder zu werfen und Bezugsprobleme des Pädagogischen zu spezifizieren." (Autorenreferat)

Educational technology as a broad and applied interdisciplinary research field faces challenges in achieving consensus on what constitutes good quality research. As the field is embedded in many other disciplines, considering what evidence matters and the optimal methodologies to conduct inquiry is continually evolving and maturing. Inhabiting a boundary between education, and computer science, and viewed through numerous theoretical lenses ranging from disciplines of sociology, politics, psychology, the learning systems, curriculum development, digital humanities, and beyond, the number of approaches contributing to the field is vast. The validity, trustworthiness and integrity of over two decades of research in this domain is continually questioned. Furthermore, as technology itself also changes, there are differing opinions on how best to explore and understand the role it plays in education. How we define, research and evaluate our evidence is central to our understanding of how we learn and how this is enhanced with and through technology in various ways. Whilst scholars continue to critique and debate the veracity of findings, educational technology journals play an important role in allowing us to collectively peer review, and publish the best quality research studies. Changes in the open access publishing world and in the open science movement have the potential to address some of shortfalls in how our understandings are evaluated, critiqued and judged in this domain.