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Knowledge and Policy: Research — Information — Intervention

At the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) 2006 in Geneva, Switzerland, the EERJ Roundtable focused upon the relationships between information, research and intervention. These relationships could be understood as a circular flow of decontextualising and recontextualising terms, concepts or ‘knowledge’ according to the respective needs and prevalent textures. Theoretically and methodically reflected research, well-organized information via databases, or legitimate and well-justified political decisions for interventions indicate reference contexts according to which terms and concepts get their specific shape. The supposedly neutral information becomes converted into research knowledge restricted by its constructional trait and this knowledge becomes loaded up with constitutional or political norms serving political interventions. One cannot separate, but analytically distinguish respective types of ‘knowledge’ in order to analyse forms and modes of transformations. At present, traditionally differentiated and ramified educational research communication is under pressure through attempts to govern educational research into the direction of politically desired and needed ‘practical’ and applicable research on education by means of research management and funding. The basically underlying assumption of these attempts is a linear transfer from educational research governance, to educational research, to educational practice, and back again. In addition, the claim of rational governance leads to an increasing demand of reliable information providing ‘certainty’ for structurally uncertain decisions and their consequences. ‘Good decisions are informed decisions’ is one of the great promises of modern concepts of rationality. Provision of useful and reliable information is intended to be used for political decisions to improve education. Furthermore, the mentioned assumption also implies that the quality of decisions would increase with the amount of good and ‘cumulative’ information