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SUMMARY:On the possibility of outsider understanding: a conversation - Dav
 id Bridges (University of Cambridge Faculty of Education) & Halvor Hoveid 
 (Norwegian University of Science and Technology\, Trondheim)
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CONTACT:Susannah Lacon
DESCRIPTION:In August 2008 David Bridges gave the first Terence McLaughlin
  Memorial Lecture at the conference of the International Network of Philos
 ophers of Education in Kyoto on the theme of the possibility of outsider u
 nderstanding of\, for example\, religious communities (Terry argued that y
 ou could only ultimately understand religious practice from the inside)\, 
 disability and other societies. In this he took a analytic and epistemolog
 ical approach that led him to challenge the dichotomy between insider and 
 outsider understanding\, to emphasise the multi faceted nature of ‘under
 standing’ and to conclude that not only were there no insuperable barrie
 rs to such understanding but that such outsider understanding was one of t
 he important contributions which research brought to social experience.\n\
 nAmong those who responded critically to the presentation at Kyoto was Hal
 vor Hoveid\, who is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of Educati
 on in Cambridge. Halvor has developed a Ricoeurian reading of David’s pa
 per which provides different insights into the issues of outsider understa
 nding and a very different approach to the problem.  It also presents the 
 gap between Halvor’s approach to philosophy of education and David’s A
 nglo Saxon analytic approach as itself a problem of outsider and insider u
 nderstanding.\n\nBoth David’s paper and Halvor’s response are availabl
 e in electronic form to anyone interested. They would like to make a short
  presentation of the papers and then initiate discussion around the issues
  they raise – and would welcome the participation of anyone who is inter
 ested in taking part.\n\nHalvor Hoveid is Associate Professor of Pedagogy 
 at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim and was
  until recently Co-Convenor of the Teacher Education Network of the Europe
 an Educational Research Association. Most of his publications are in Norwe
 gian\, but they also include the following (co-authored with Marit Hoveid\
 , who is also visiting the Faculty)\n\n2009  	Educational Practice and Dev
 elopment of Human Capabilities. Mediations of the student teacher relation
  at the interpersonal and institutional level. In Hinchliffe\, Terzi and P
 endlebury (eds.) : Capabilities and Education\, Special Issue of Studies i
 n Philosophy and Education\, Springer. (Now online)\n2008   	Teachers' Ide
 ntity\, Self and the Process of Learning. Studies in Philosophy of Educati
 on\, 27(2-3)\, 125-136. Springer.\n2004   	On the Possibilities of Educati
 ng Active and Reflective Teachers. European Educational Research Journal\,
  volume 3 (number 1.) 49-76. se nettadr: http://www.wwwords.co.uk/EERJ/  \
 n\nDavid Bridges has recently re-joined the Faculty of Education as Profes
 sorial Fellow. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of East Anglia\,
  where he was Pro Vice Chancellor\, and an Emeritus Fellow of St Edmund’
 s College\, where until recently he directed the Von Hugel Institute. He i
 s Honorary Vice President of the Philosophy of Education Society and a Cou
 ncil member of both BERA and EERA. \nHis recent writing has focussed in pa
 rticular on philosophical issues relating to educational research Bridges 
 D 2003 ‘Fiction written under oath?’ Essays on Philosophy and Educatio
 nal Research)  including most recently\, out of work on  TLRP supported pr
 oject Bridges\,D.\, Smeyers\, P & Smith R.D eds. (2009) Evidence based pol
 icy: What evidence? What basis? Whose policy and on the back of his work o
 n the RAE panel and now on the Framework 7 European Educational Research Q
 uality Indicators project on research quality assessment (Bridges D 2009 
 ‘Research quality assessment in education: Impossible science\, possible
  art? BERJ 35\,4 pp 497-517).\n
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