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This paper addresses two main questions: (1) What has theory been doing? and (2) What might theory be doing? The first question is addressed historically, and the second question is addressed imaginatively. In between those two topics, I have inserted a brief interval to raise some sticking points pertaining to the question, “What is properly educational about educational theory?”
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The article is based upon an invited keynote speech to the First International Theorising Education Conference, University of Stirling, June 2010.
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Fendler, L. Lurking, Distilling, Exceeding, Vibrating. Stud Philos Educ 31, 315–326 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11217-012-9303-x
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