1. Educational Research: A Tale of Tensions and Opportunities -- 2. Ethics, Epistemology and the Post-Humboldtian University -- 3. The Assessment of Academic Research in the UK: An Ethical Analysis. 4. Between Research Ethics and Other Interests: Challenges for Historians of Education -- 5. Research Ethics and the Case of Positionality -- 6. Math and Music: Slow and Not For Profit -- 7. Competing Values Within Language Education Research -- 8. Epistemology, Ethics and Educational Research -- 9. Taking the Long View: Longitudinal Surveys and the Construction of Educational Inequality in America -- 10. Validity-versus-Reliability Tradeoffs and the Ethics of Educational Research -- 11. Schwab's Challenge and the Unfulfilled Promise of Action Research -- 12. On the Commodification of Educational Research -- 13. The Funding of Higher Education: Lessons from Europe’s Past -- 14. The Furnace of Instrumental Reason -- 15. Ovide Decroly (1871-1932): The Prototype of a Modern Scientist, Also in the Context of Funding? -- 16. The Gates Foundation MET Research Project as a Case of Philanthrocapitalism -- 17. We're (not) Only in it for the Money (Frank Zappa). The Financial Structure of STEM and STEAM Research -- 18. Dynamising the Dynamics of Funding and Investment Conditions: Coaching Emerging Researchers for Publishing in Intercultural Settings.          .

This book examines the conduct and purposes of educational research. It looks at values of researchers, at whose interests are served by the research, and the inclusion or exclusion of practitioners and subjects of research. It asks if educational research should be explicitly committed to promoting equality and inclusion, and whether that requires research to be more aware of the cultural and global contexts of research questions. It explores the ethical challenges encountered in the conduct of research and the potential ethical and social justice constraints imposed by comparative research rankings. Next, it discusses the research funding aspects of the above issues both philosophically and historically, thus examining the changing sources, patterns, and effects of educational research funding over time. Since the conduct of most educational research increasingly requires institutional and financial support, the question is whether funding shapes the content of research, and what counts as research. The book discusses if funding is a factor in the shift of efforts of researchers from pure or basic research to more applied research, and if it encourages the development of large research teams, to the detriment of individual scholars. It looks at the ownership of the content, results, and data of publicly funded research. Finally, it tries to establish whether scholars solicit funding to support research projects, or generate research projects to attract funding.   This publication, as well as the ones that are mentioned in the preliminary pages of this work, were realized by the Research Community Philosophy and History of the Discipline of Education: Purposes, Projects, and Practices of Educational Research.