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University Futures (2013)
Book Chapter
Smith, R. (2013). University Futures. In R. Smith (Ed.), Education Policy: Philosophical Critique (147-160). Wiley

Interpretation: The Space of Text (2013)
Book Chapter
Smith, R. (2013). Interpretation: The Space of Text. In P. Smeyers, M. Depaepe, & E. Keiner (Eds.), Educational research : the importance and effects of institutional spaces (115-126). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6247-3_8

Turning towards another kind of space, Richard Smith foregrounds ‘Interpretation: The Space of Text’ (Chap. 8). It is easy to forget that text too is an institutional space of educational research and one with distinctive forms in academic journal ar... Read More about Interpretation: The Space of Text.

The philosopher and the writer (2013)
Book Chapter
Smith, R. (2013). The philosopher and the writer. In J. Gingell (Ed.), Education and the common good : essays in honor of Robin Barrow (1-12). Routledge

Mud and hair: an essay on the conditions of educational research (2013)
Book Chapter
Smith, R. (2014). Mud and hair: an essay on the conditions of educational research. In P. Smeyers, & M. Depaepe (Eds.), Educational research : material culture and its representation (133-144). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03083-8_9

Educational research is of course affected by the economic, institutional and physical contingencies of its time, and in our time it is increasingly driven by them. Much can be said about this; and perhaps it might be suspected that there is a tenden... Read More about Mud and hair: an essay on the conditions of educational research.

A strange condition of things: alterity and knowingness in Dickens' 'David Copperfield' (2013)
Journal Article
Smith, R. (2013). A strange condition of things: alterity and knowingness in Dickens' 'David Copperfield'. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 45(4), 371-382. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2012.718144

It is sometimes said that we are strangers to ourselves, bearers of internal alterity, as well as to each other. The profounder this strangeness then the greater the difficulty of giving any systematic account of it without paradox: of supposing that... Read More about A strange condition of things: alterity and knowingness in Dickens' 'David Copperfield'.