Educational Discourse and Educational Practice

Abstract

This article sets out to systemise a series of reflections on the nature of educational knowledge and the way of producing it, placing special emphasis on the practical sense and regulatory content of this type of knowledge. The reflection is developed in three parts. In the first, certain symptoms are detected and explained that reveal the current situation of educational science. In the second part, a concept of the discipline of Education is explained along with three different ways of creating educational knowledge in line with its relationship to educational practice. Finally, mention is made of a kind of Decalogue on the emphases we consider ought to guide the construction of such knowledge today.