Educology

The term '''educology''' means ''the fund of knowledge AbOUT the educational process''.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Fisher|first=James E|title=Contributing Paper 1.1 in History and Philosophy of Educology, Part I (A paper used as the basis for a series of seven lectures to faculty and doctoral students in educology at Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) in December, 2001)|journal=Pedagogika|publisher=Kaunus, Lithuania: Vytauto Didziojo universiteto leidykla|year=2001|url=http://www.era-usa.net/contributingpapersset1.html|issn= 1392-0340}}</ref> Educology consists of discourse about education. The discourse is made up of warranted assertions, valid explanatory theories and sound justificatory arguments about the educational process. This conception of educology derives from the common usage of the term by educologists in articles, journals and books published since the 1950s.<ref name=brezinkaetal>See:
*{{cite book |last=Brezinka|first=Wolfgang |editor-first=James E| editor-last=Christensen |title=Perspectives on Education as Educology |publisher=Washington, DC: University Press of America|year=1981 |pages=7–26|chapter=Chapter 1: Meta-Theory of Education: European Contributions from an Empirical-Analytic Point of View |isbn=0819113934}}
*{{cite book |last1=Brezinka |first1=Wolfgang (Translated from the German by James Stuart Brice and Raoul Eshelman) |title=Philosophy of Educational Knowledge: An Introduction to the Foundations of Science of Education, Philosophy of Education and Practical Pedagogics|year=1992 |publisher=Kluwer Academic Publishers |location=Dordrecht |isbn=0792315227}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Christensen|first=James E|title=Educational Research as Educology|journal=Australian Educational Researcher|volume=2|issue=4|pages=18–20|publisher=Australian Association for Research in Education|year=1975|url=http://www.aare.edu.au/aer|issn=03116999}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Christensen|first=James E|title=A Conversation about Education as Educology, Guest Editorial|journal=Educational Studies: A Journal of the American Educational Studies Association|volume=8|issue=1|pages=v-xii|publisher=Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group|year=1977|url=http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t775653643~link=cover|issn=00131946}}
*{{cite book |last1=Christensen |first1=James E|title=Curriculum, Education, and Educology |year=1981 |publisher=Educology Research Associates |location=Sydney |isbn=094978401X}}
*{{cite book |last1=Christensen |first1=James E|title=Education and Human Development: A Study in Educology |year=1981|publisher=Educology Research Associates|location=Sydney|isbn=0949784001}}
*{{cite book|last=Christensen|first=James E|editor-first=James E| editor-last=Christensen|title=Perspectives on Education as Educology|publisher=Washington, DC: University Press of America|year=1981 |pages=121–158| chapter=Chapter 6: Educology and Some Related Concepts|isbn=0819113934}}
*{{cite book |editor-first=James E| editor-last=Christensen|title=Perspectives on Education as Educology|publisher=Washington, DC: University Press of America|year=1981 |isbn=0819113934}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Christensen|first=James E|title=The Educology of Curriculum|journal=Collected Original Resources in Education|publisher=Taylor and Francis Group|date=March, 1982|issn=03086909}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Christensen|first=James E|title=Comparative Educology: A Bridging Concept for Comparative Educational Inquiry, a paper presented to the Fifth World Congress of Comparative Education, Paris, 2-6 Jul, 1984|journal=Resources in Education|pages=Accession Numbers ED 266542, EA 018220|publisher=ERIC: Education Resources Information Center| date=June, 1986|url=http://www.eric.ed.gov/}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Christensen|first=James E|title=Educational Research with an Educological Perspective, a paper presented to the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, 31 Mar - 4 Apr, 1985|journal=Resources in Education|pages=Accession Numbers ED 263197, TM 850688|publisher=ERIC: Education Resources Information Center| date=March, 1986|url=http://www.eric.ed.gov/}}
*{{cite book |editor-first=James E| editor-last=Christensen|title=Educology 86: Proceedings of a Conference on Educational Research, Inquiry and Development with an Educological Perspective, Canberra, July 20-12, 1986|publisher=Sydney: Educology Research Associates|year=1986 |isbn=0949784052}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Christensen|first=James E|title=Education, Educology and Educological Discourse: Theory and Structure for Education and Constructive Action in Education|journal=International Journal of Educology|volume=1|issue=1|pages=1–32|publisher=Educology Research Associates|year=1987|url=http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED360376&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED360376|issn=08180563}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Christensen|first=James E|last2=Fisher|first2=James E|title=An Organizational Theory for Schools of Teacher Education and Faculties of Education|journal=Australian Journal of Education|volume=22|issue=1|pages=52–71|publisher=Australian Council for Educational Research|year=1978|url=http://www.acer.edu.au/press/aje|issn=00049441}}
*{{cite book |last1=Christensen |first1=James E|last2=Fisher|first2=James E|title=Analytic Philosophy of Education as a Subdiscipline of Educology |year=1979|publisher=University Press of America|location=Washington, DC|isbn=0819108022}}
*{{cite book |last1=Christensen |first1=James E|last2=Fisher|first2=James E|title=Organization and Colleges of Education: An Educological Perspective |year=1983|publisher=Educology Research Associates|location=Sydney|isbn=0949784028}}
*{{cite book |last1=Christensen |first1=James E|last2=Fisher|first2=James E |editor-first=James E| editor-last=Christensen |title=Perspectives on Education as Educology |publisher=Washington, DC: University Press of America|year=1981 |pages=263–300|chapter=Chapter 12: Educology as an Organizational Concept for Schools of Teacher Education, College of Education, and Faculties of Education |isbn=0819113934}}
*{{cite book |last=Fisher|first=James E |editor-first=James E| editor-last=Christensen |title=Perspectives on Education as Educology |publisher=Washington, DC: University Press of America|year=1981 |pages=301–327|chapter=Chapter 13: The Concept of Educology and the Classification System used in ''Educational Studies'' |isbn=0819113934}}
*{{cite book |last=Fisher|first=James E |editor-first=James E| editor-last=Christensen |title=Educology 86: Proceedings of a Conference on Educational Research, Inquiry and Development with an Educological Perspective, Canberra, July 20-12, 1986|publisher=Sydney: Educology Research Associates |year=1986 |pages=51–72|chapter=Chapter 4: Toward a Theory of Language for Educology and Education |isbn=0949784052}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Fisher|first=James E|title=The Territory of Educology|journal=International Journal of Educology|volume=5|issue=1|pages=18–45|publisher=Educology Research Associates|year=1991|url=http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED360376&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED360376|issn=08180563}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Fisher|first=James E|title=The Domain of Educology|journal=International Journal of Educology|volume=10|issue=1|pages=66–143|publisher=Educology Research Associates|year=1996|url=http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED360376&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED360376|issn=08180563}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Fisher|first=James E|title=An Outlined Introduction to the Universal and Unifying Experiential Research Methodology in the Domain of Educology: The Discipline of Educology Introduced to Graduate Students in Educology|journal=International Journal of Educology|volume=12-15|pages=59–76|publisher=Educology Research Associates|date=1998-2001|issn=08180563}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Maccia|first=Elizabeth Steiner|title=Logic of Education and of Educatology: Dimensions of Philosophy of Education|journal=Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Philosophy of Education Society|publisher=Lawrence, Kansas: Philosophy of Education Society| year=1964|issn=87566575}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Maccia|first=Elizabeth Steiner|title=Towards Educational Theorizing without Mistake|journal=Studies in Philosophy and Education|volume=7|issue=2|pages=154–157|date=Sep 1970|issn=00393746}}
*{{cite book|last=Maccia|first=George|editor-first=George F| editor-last=Kneller|title=Foundations of Education, Second Edition| publisher=New York: John Wiley & Sons|year=1967|chapter=Science and Science of Education| isbn=0471495050}}
*{{cite book|last=Maccia|first=George|editor-first=James E| editor-last=Christensen|title=Perspectives on Education as Educology|publisher=Washington, DC: University Press of America|year=1981 |pages=27–50| chapter=Chapter 2: The Genesis of Educology|isbn=0819113934}}
*{{cite book|last=Steiner|first=Elizabeth|editor-first=John Martin| editor-last=Rich|title=Readings in the Philosophy of Education, Second Edition| publisher=Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Company|year=1972|chapter=The Non-Identity of Philosophy and Theory of Education|isbn=9780534002046}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Steiner|first=Elizabeth|title=Educology: Its Origins and Future, a paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York, NY, 3-8 Apr, 1977|journal=Resources in Education|pages=Accession Numbers ED 141201|publisher=ERIC: Education Resources Information Center| year=1977|url=http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED141201&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED141201}}
*{{cite book |last1=Steiner |first1=Elizabeth |title=Logical and Conceptual Analytic Techniques for Educational Researchers |year=1978 |publisher=University Press of America |location=Washington, DC |isbn=0081910406X}}
*{{cite book |last1=Steiner |first1=Elizabeth |title=Educology of the Free|year=1981|publisher=Philosophical Library |location=New York |isbn=802223737}}
*{{cite book|last=Steiner|first=Elizabeth|editor-first=James E| editor-last=Christensen|title=Perspectives on Education as Educology|publisher=Washington, DC: University Press of America|year=1981 |pages=87–100| chapter=Chapter 4: Logic of Education and of Educatology: Dimensions of Philosophy of Education|isbn=0819113934}}
*{{cite book |last=Steiner|first=Elizabeth |editor-first=James E| editor-last=Christensen |title=Perspectives on Education as Educology |publisher=Washington, DC: University Press of America|year=1981 |pages=101–120|chapter=Chapter 5: Educology: Thirteen Years Later|isbn=0819113934}}
*{{cite book |last=Steiner|first=Elizabeth |editor-first=James E| editor-last=Christensen|title=Educology 86: Proceedings of a Conference on Educational Research, Inquiry and Development with an Educological Perspective, Canberra, July 20-12, 1986|publisher=Sydney: Educology Research Associates|year=1986|pages=221–228|chapter=Chapter 13: Crisis in Educology |isbn=0949784052}}</ref>

==Use from the 1950s through the 1970s==
The term ''educology'' has been in use in the English language since the seminal work in educology by Professor Lowry W. Harding<ref>Lowry Harding published four works in educology. They have a light hearted tone, but there is a serious underlying message about the necessity to clarify the distinction between the educational process and knowledge about that process:
*{{cite book |editor-first=Lowry W| editor-last=Harding|title=Anthology in Educology|year=1951 |publisher=Wm C Brown, Co |location=Dubuque, Iowa |isbn=0}}
*{{cite book |editor-first=Lowry W| editor-last=Harding|title=Essays in Educology|year=1956 |publisher=Wm C Brown, Co |location=Dubuque, Iowa |isbn=0}}
*{{cite book |editor-first=Lowry W| editor-last=Harding|title=More Essays in Educology|year=1964 |publisher=Association for the Study of Educology |location=Columbus, Ohio |isbn=0}}
*{{cite book |editor-first=Lowry W| editor-last=Harding|title=Educology: The Fourth Collection|year=1965 |publisher=Association for the Study of Educology |location=Columbus, Ohio |isbn=0}}</ref> at [[Ohio State University]] in the 1950s and Professor Elizabeth Steiner [Maccia]<ref>Elizabeth Steiner Maccia published under the names of Elizabeth Steiner and Elizabeth Steiner Maccia:
*{{Cite journal|last=Maccia|first=Elizabeth Steiner|title=Logic of Education and of Educatology: Dimensions of Philosophy of Education|journal=Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Philosophy of Education Society|publisher=Lawrence, Kansas: Philosophy of Education Society| year=1964|issn=87566575}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Maccia|first=Elizabeth Steiner|title=Towards Educational Theorizing without Mistake|journal=Studies in Philosophy and Education|volume=7|issue=2|pages=154–157|date=Sep 1970|issn=00393746}}
*{{cite book|last=Steiner [Maccia]|first=Elizabeth|editor-first=John Martin| editor-last=Rich|title=Readings in the Philosophy of Education, Second Edition| publisher=Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Company|year=1972|chapter=The Non-Identity of Philosophy and Theory of Education|isbn=9780534002046}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Steiner|first=Elizabeth|title=Educology: Its Origins and Future, a paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York, NY, 3-8 Apr, 1977|journal=Resources in Education|pages=Accession Numbers ED 141201|publisher=ERIC: Education Resources Information Center| year=1977|url=http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED141201&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED141201}}
*{{cite book |last1=Steiner |first1=Elizabeth |title=Logical and Conceptual Analytic Techniques for Educational Researchers |year=1978 |publisher=University Press of America |location=Washington, DC |isbn=0081910406X}}
*{{cite book |last1=Steiner |first1=Elizabeth |title=Educology of the Free |year=1981 |publisher=Philosophical Library |location=New York |isbn=802223737}}
*{{cite book |last=Steiner|first=Elizabeth |editor-first=James E| editor-last=Christensen |title=Perspectives on Education as Educology |publisher=Washington, DC: University Press of America|year=1981 |pages=101–120|chapter=Chapter 5: Educology: Thirteen Years Later|isbn=0819113934}}
*{{cite book|last=Steiner|first=Elizabeth|editor-first=James E| editor-last=Christensen|title=Perspectives on Education as Educology|publisher=Washington, DC: University Press of America|year=1981 |pages=87–100| chapter=Chapter 4: Logic of Education and of Educatology: Dimensions of Philosophy of Education|isbn=0819113934}}
*{{cite book |last=Steiner|first=Elizabeth |editor-first=James E| editor-last=Christensen |title=Educology 86: Proceedings of a Conference on Educational Research, Inquiry and Development with an Educological Perspective, Canberra, July 20-12, 1986|publisher=Sydney: Educology Research Associates |year=1986 |pages=221–228|chapter=Chapter 13: Crisis in Educology |isbn=0949784052}}</ref> and her husband, Professor George Maccia,<ref>George Maccia made a number of important contributions to the development of educology, including:
*{{cite book|last=Maccia|first=George|editor-first=George F| editor-last=Kneller|title=Foundations of Education, Second Edition| publisher=New York: John Wiley & Sons|year=1967|chapter=Science and Science of Education| isbn=0471495050}}
*{{cite book|last=Maccia|first=George|editor-first=James E| editor-last=Christensen|title=Perspectives on Education as Educology|publisher=Washington, DC: University Press of America|year=1981 |pages=27–50| chapter=Chapter 2: The Genesis of Educology|isbn=0819113934}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Maccia|first=George|title=A Philosophical Educology: Education and Dialectics of Person|journal=International Journal of Educology|volume=5|issue=1|pages=71–84|publisher=Educology Research Associates|year=1991|url=http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED360376&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED360376|issn=08180563}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Maccia|first=George|title=Education for Humanity: A Philosophical Educology|journal=International Journal of Educology|volume=6|issue=1|pages=1–10|publisher=Educology Research Associates|year=1992|url=http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED360376&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED360376|issn=08180563}}</ref> at [[Indiana University]] in the 1960s. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, [[John B. Biggs]]<ref>Prof. [[John B. Biggs]] of Newcastle University (Australia) coined the term ''educology'' in 1975 in a paper ("Professional Development or Practice") presented to the Annual Conference of the South Pacific Association for Teacher Education (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia) (cited in {{cite book|last=Christensen|first=James E|editor-first=James E| editor-last=Christensen|title=Perspectives on Education as Educology|publisher=Washington, DC: University Press of America|year=1981 |pages=vi| chapter=Preface|isbn=0819113934}}) and used the term again in:
*{{Cite journal|last=Biggs|first=John B|title=Educology: Theory of Educational Practice|journal=Contemporary Educational Psychology|volume=1|issue=3|pages=274–284|year=1976|issn=0361476X}}
*{{cite book |last=Biggs|first=John B |editor-first=James E| editor-last=Christensen |title=Perspectives on Education as Educology |publisher=Washington, DC: University Press of America|year=1981 |pages=197–212 |chapter=Chapter 8: Educology: The Science of Effective Education |isbn=0819113934}}</ref> and Rachel Elder <ref>Rachel Elder coined the term ''educology'' in the late 1960's and used it in an unpublished paper written for Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development (San Francisco) "Three Educologies" (mimeographed, 1971). She used the term in the sense of ideologies about education in order to stimulate students at the University of California, Berkeley, in the activitist days of the late 1960's to clarify their own ideologies as a basis for action in the task of teaching. Elder's work is cited in {{cite book|last=Christensen|first=James E|editor-first=James E| editor-last=Christensen|title=Perspectives on Education as Educology|publisher=Washington, DC: University Press of America|year=1981 |pages=vi| chapter=Preface|isbn=0819113934}}</ref> coined the term independently of Harding, Steiner and Maccia. Other researchers in the English speaking world who worked on clarifying the implications of the concept of ''educology'' in the 1970s and 1980s included James E. Christensen,<ref>James Christensen's contributions included:
*{{Cite journal|last=Christensen|first=James E|title=Educational Research as Educology|journal=Australian Educational Researcher|volume=2|issue=4|pages=18–20|publisher=Australian Association for Research in Education|year=1975|url=http://www.aare.edu.au/aer|issn=03116999}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Christensen|first=James E|title=A Conversation about Education as Educology, Guest Editorial|journal=Educational Studies: A Journal of the American Educational Studies Association|volume=8|issue=1|pages=v-xii|publisher=Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group|year=1977|url=http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t775653643~link=cover|issn=00131946}}
*{{cite book |last1=Christensen |first1=James E|title=Curriculum, Education, and Educology|year=1981 |publisher=Educology Research Associates |location=Sydney |isbn=094978401X}}
*{{cite book |last1=Christensen |first1=James E|title=Education and Human Development: A Study in Educology|year=1981|publisher=Educology Research Associates|location=Sydney|isbn=0949784001}}
*{{cite book|last=Christensen|first=James E|editor-first=James E| editor-last=Christensen|title=Perspectives on Education as Educology|publisher=Washington, DC: University Press of America|year=1981 |pages=121–158| chapter=Chapter 6: Educology and Some Related Concepts|isbn=0819113934}}
*{{cite book |editor-first=James E| editor-last=Christensen|title=Perspectives on Education as Educology|publisher=Washington, DC: University Press of America|year=1981 |isbn=0819113934}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Christensen|first=James E|title=The Educology of Curriculum|journal=Collected Original Resources in Education|publisher=Taylor and Francis Group|date=March, 1982|issn=03086909}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Christensen|first=James E|title=Comparative Educology: A Bridging Concept for Comparative Educational Inquiry, a paper presented to the Fifth World Congress of Comparative Education, Paris, 2-6 Jul, 1984|journal=Resources in Education|pages=Accession Numbers ED 266542, EA 018220|publisher=ERIC: Education Resources Information Center| date=June, 1986|url=http://www.eric.ed.gov/}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Christensen|first=James E|title=Educational Research with an Educological Perspective, a paper presented to the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, 31 Mar - 4 Apr, 1985|journal=Resources in Education|pages=Accession Numbers ED 263197, TM 850688|publisher=ERIC: Education Resources Information Center| date=March, 1986|url=http://www.eric.ed.gov/}}
*{{cite book |editor-first=James E| editor-last=Christensen|title=Educology 86: Proceedings of a Conference on Educational Research, Inquiry and Development with an Educological Perspective, Canberra, July 20-12, 1986|publisher=Sydney: Educology Research Associates|year=1986 |isbn=0949784052}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Christensen|first=James E|title=Education, Educology and Educological Discourse: Theory and Structure for Education and Constructive Action in Education|journal=International Journal of Educology|volume=1|issue=1|pages=1–32|publisher=Educology Research Associates|year=1987|url=http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED360376&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED360376|issn=08180563}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Christensen|first=James E|title=Education for Freedom: A Philosophical Educology|journal=International Journal of Educology|volume=6|issue=2|pages=97–131|publisher=Educology Research Associates|year=1992|url=http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED360376&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED360376|issn=08180563}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Christensen|first=James E|last2=Fisher|first2=James E|title=An Organizational Theory for Schools of Teacher Education and Faculties of Education|journal=Australian Journal of Education|volume=22|issue=1|pages=52–71|publisher=Australian Council for Educational Research|year=1978|url=http://www.acer.edu.au/press/aje|issn=00049441}}
*{{cite book |last1=Christensen |first1=James E|last2=Fisher|first2=James E|title=Analytic Philosophy of Education as a Subdiscipline of Educology |year=1979|publisher=University Press of America|location=Washington, DC|isbn=0819108022}}
*{{cite book |last1=Christensen |first1=James E|last2=Fisher|first2=James E|title=Organization and Colleges of Education: An Educological Perspective |year=1983|publisher=Educology Research Associates|location=Sydney|isbn=0949784028}}
*{{cite book |last1=Christensen |first1=James E|last2=Fisher|first2=James E |editor-first=James E| editor-last=Christensen |title=Perspectives on Education as Educology |publisher=Washington, DC: University Press of America|year=1981 |pages=263–300|chapter=Chapter 12: Educology as an Organizational Concept for Schools of Teacher Education, College of Education, and Faculties of Education |isbn=0819113934}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Christensen|first=James E|last2=Fisher|first2=James E|title=Editorial: The Holmes Group Report and Educology|journal=International Journal of Educology|volume=2|issue=1|pages=vii-ix|publisher=Educology Research Associates|year=1988|url=http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED360376&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED360376|issn=08180563}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Christensen|first=James E|last2=Fisher|first2=James E|title=Editorial: The Need for Educological Research in the Areas of Secondary School Retention Rates, Educational Pathways and Recurrent Education|journal=International Journal of Educology|volume=2|issue=2|pages=ix-xii|publisher=Educology Research Associates|year=1988|url=http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED360376&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED360376|issn=08180563}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Christensen|first=James E|last2=Fisher|first2=James E|title=Editorial: Educology and the Educological Perspective|journal=International Journal of Educology|volume=3|issue=1|pages=ix-xv|publisher=Educology Research Associates|year=1989|url=http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED360376&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED360376|issn=08180563}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Christensen|first=James E|last2=Fisher|first2=James E|title=Editorial: Three Critical Distinctions for Advancing Educology|journal=International Journal of Educology|volume=4|issue=1|pages=vi-viii|publisher=Educology Research Associates|year=1990|url=http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED360376&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED360376|issn=08180563}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Christensen|first=James E|last2=Fisher|first2=James E|title=Editorial: Educology for Initial Teacher Education and for Professional Development of Practising Teachers -- Changing Needs, Changing Demands|journal=International Journal of Educology|volume=4|issue=2|pages=vi-xvii|publisher=Educology Research Associates|year=1990|url=http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED360376&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED360376|issn=08180563}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Christensen|first=James E|last2=Fisher|first2=James E|title=Editorial: A Challenge for Educologists of Curriculum|journal=International Journal of Educology|volume=5|issue=1|pages=vi-ix|publisher=Educology Research Associates|year=1991|url=http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED360376&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED360376|issn=08180563}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Christensen|first=James E|last2=Fisher|first2=James E|title=Editorial: An Educology of Values, Goals and Action Plans|journal=International Journal of Educology|volume=5|issue=2|pages=vi-ix|publisher=Educology Research Associates|year=1991|url=http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED360376&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED360376|issn=08180563}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Christensen|first=James E|last2=Fisher|first2=James E|title=Editorial: The Educology of the Work Place|journal=International Journal of Educology|volume=6|issue=1|pages=vi-xi|publisher=Educology Research Associates|year=1992|url=http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED360376&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED360376|issn=08180563}}</ref> James E. Fisher,<ref>James E. Fisher's contributions to the development of educology included:
*{{cite book |last=Fisher|first=James E |editor-first=James E| editor-last=Christensen |title=Perspectives on Education as Educology |publisher=Washington, DC: University Press of America|year=1981 |pages=301–327|chapter=Chapter 13: The Concept of Educology and the Classification System used in ''Educational Studies'' |isbn=0819113934}}
*{{cite book |last=Fisher|first=James E |editor-first=James E| editor-last=Christensen |title=Educology 86: Proceedings of a Conference on Educational Research, Inquiry and Development with an Educological Perspective, Canberra, July 20-12, 1986|publisher=Sydney: Educology Research Associates |year=1986 |pages=51–72|chapter=Chapter 4: Toward a Theory of Language for Educology and Education |isbn=0949784052}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Fisher|first=James E|title=The Territory of Educology|journal=International Journal of Educology|volume=5|issue=1|pages=18–45|publisher=Educology Research Associates|year=1991|url=http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED360376&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED360376|issn=08180563}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Fisher|first=James E|title=Mapping Observations about Education in the Home: An Educology of Home|journal=International Journal of Educology|volume=6|issue=1|pages=53–93|publisher=Educology Research Associates|year=1992|url=http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED360376&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED360376|issn=08180563}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Fisher|first=James E|title=An Introduction to Home Educology and Home Education in the USA [Part I]|journal=International Journal of Educology|volume=6|issue=2|pages=170–207|publisher=Educology Research Associates|year=1992|url=http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED360376&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED360376|issn=08180563}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Fisher|first=James E|title=An Introduction to Home Educology and Home Education in the USA [Part II]|journal=International Journal of Educology|volume=7|issue=2|pages=139–196|publisher=Educology Research Associates|year=1993|url=http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED360376&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED360376|issn=08180563}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Fisher|first=James E|title=The Domain of Educology|journal=International Journal of Educology|volume=10|issue=1|pages=66–143|publisher=Educology Research Associates|year=1996|url=http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED360376&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED360376|issn=08180563}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Fisher|first=James E|title=An Outlined Introduction to the Universal and Unifying Experiential Research Methodology in the Domain of Educology: The Discipline of Educology Introduced to Graduate Students in Educology|journal=International Journal of Educology|volume=12-15|pages=59–76|publisher=Educology Research Associates|date=1998-2001|issn=08180563}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Fisher|first=James E|title=Educology Contributing to the Development of the New Democracy in Lithuania|journal=International Journal of Educology|volume=12-15|pages=77–79|publisher=Educology Research Associates|date=1998-2001|issn=08180563}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Fisher|first=James E|title=A General Sketch of a Semiotically Understood and Oriented Organic Experiential Philosophy of Educology for Developing Democracies in the World|journal=International Journal of Educology|volume=17|issue=1&2|pages=1–40|publisher=Educology Research Associates|year=2003|issn=08180563}}
*{{cite book |last1=Fisher |first1=James E|last2=Reinhart|first2=Marian |editor-first=James E| editor-last=Christensen |title=Perspectives on Education as Educology |publisher=Washington, DC: University Press of America|year=1981 |pages=328–340|chapter=Chapter 14: Educology and the Teaching of Mathematics |isbn=0819113934}}</ref> David E. Denton,<ref>{{cite book |last=Denton|first=David E |editor-first=James E| editor-last=Christensen |title=Perspectives on Education as Educology |publisher=Washington, DC: University Press of America|year=1981 |pages=375–380|chapter=Chapter 17: A Renewed Call for a Society of Educologists |isbn=0819113934}}</ref> Diana Buell Hiatt,<ref>{{cite book |last=Hiatt|first=Diana Buell |editor-first=James E| editor-last=Christensen |title=Educology 86: Proceedings of a Conference on Educational Research, Inquiry and Development with an Educological Perspective, Canberra, July 20-12, 1986|publisher=Sydney: Educology Research Associates |year=1986 |pages=101–112|chapter=Chapter 7: Curricular Decision Making with an Educological Perspective: Theory into Practice |isbn=0949784052}}</ref> Charles M. Reigeluth and M. David Merrill,<ref>{{cite book |last=Reigeluth|first=Charles M|last2=Merrill|first2=M David|editor-first=James E| editor-last=Christensen |title=Perspectives on Education as Educology |publisher=Washington, DC: University Press of America|year=1981 |pages=223–250| chapter=Chapter 10: Instructional Science and Technology: Their Context within Educology and Some Ideas for Their Future Development |isbn=0819113934}}</ref> James F. Perry,<ref>James F. Perry focused on praxiological educology and argued that it is one of the subfunds of educology:
*{{cite book |last=Perry|first=James F |editor-first=James E| editor-last=Christensen |title=Perspectives on Education as Educology |publisher=Washington, DC: University Press of America|year=1981 |pages=213–222|chapter=Chapter 9: Praxiology of Education as a Branch of Educology |isbn=0819113934}}
*{{cite book |last=Perry|first=James F |editor-first=James E| editor-last=Christensen |title=Educology 86: Proceedings of a Conference on Educational Research, Inquiry and Development with an Educological Perspective, Canberra, July 20-12, 1986|publisher=Sydney: Educology Research Associates |year=1986 |pages=163–182|chapter=Chapter 11: What Works for What, and Why: Praxiology of Education |isbn=0949784052}}</ref> Marian Reinhart,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Fisher |first1=James E|last2=Reinhart|first2=Marian |editor-first=James E| editor-last=Christensen |title=Perspectives on Education as Educology |publisher=Washington, DC: University Press of America|year=1981 |pages=328–340|chapter=Chapter 14: Educology and the Teaching of Mathematics |isbn=0819113934}}</ref> Edmund C. Short,<ref>{{cite book |last=Short|first=Edmund C |editor-first=James E| editor-last=Christensen |title=Perspectives on Education as Educology |publisher=Washington, DC: University Press of America|year=1981 |pages=351–374|chapter=Chapter 16: Analysis of Educology and Educological Inquiry |isbn=0819113934}}</ref> John Walton,<ref>{{cite book |last=Walton|first=John |editor-first=James E| editor-last=Christensen |title=Perspectives on Education as Educology |publisher=Washington, DC: University Press of America|year=1981 |pages=341–350|chapter=Chapter 15: Educology: An Academic Discipline |isbn=0819113934}}</ref> Catherine O. Ameh,<ref>Catherine O. Ameh has published under the names of C.O. Ameh and her married name, C.O. Anegbe:
*{{cite book |last=Ameh|first=Catherine O |editor-first=James E| editor-last=Christensen |title=Educology 86: Proceedings of a Conference on Educational Research, Inquiry and Development with an Educological Perspective, Canberra, July 20-12, 1986|publisher=Sydney: Educology Research Associates |year=1986 |pages=5–18|chapter=Chapter 1: Science Teachers' Concepts in Science: An Educological Perspective |isbn=0949784052}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Ameh|first=Catherine Onyeka|title=An Educological Approach to Identifying Teachers' Understanding of Science Concepts|journal=International Journal of Educology|volume=2|issue=1|pages=75–84|publisher=Educology Research Associates|year=1988|url=http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED360376&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED360376|issn=08180563}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Ameh|first=C O|title=An Educology for Science: Teaching Sciences in the 90's|journal=International Journal of Educology|volume=5|issue=1|pages=53–60|publisher=Educology Research Associates|year=1991|url=http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED360376&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED360376|issn=08180563}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Ameh|first=C O|title=Harmful Traditional Practices in Nigeria and Measures for eradication: An Educology of Home Education|journal=International Journal of Educology|volume=16|issue=1|pages=1–10|publisher=Educology Research Associates|year=2002|issn=08180563}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Ameh|first=C O|last2=Gyuse|first2=E Y|title=An Educology for Science and Technology in Nigeria: Pressures and Constraints|journal=International Journal of Educology|volume=4|issue=2|pages=95–103|publisher=Educology Research Associates|year=1990|url=http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED360376&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED360376|issn=08180563}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Ameh|first=C O|title=The Challenges to Effective teaching of Secondary School Science and Technology Subjects in Nigeria: An Educology of Teacher Preparation|journal=International Journal of Educology|volume=11|issue=1|pages=45–64|publisher=Educology Research Associates|year=1997|url=http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED360376&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED360376|issn=08180563}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Anegbe|first=C O|last2=Dabit|first2=S I|title=The Need for an Education Program Which Contributes to the Implementation of National Population Control Policy in Nigeria: An Educology of Social and Economic Policies|journal=International Journal of Educology|volume=10|issue=2|pages=144–158|publisher=Educology Research Associates|year=1996|url=http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED360376&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED360376|issn=08180563}}</ref> Laurie Brady,<ref>Laurie Brady's contributions to the development of educology included:
*{{Cite journal|last=Brady|first=Laurie|title=An Educological Examination of Curriculum Models and Related Variables|journal=International Journal of Educology|volume=1|issue=1|pages=33–44|publisher=Educology Research Associates|year=1987|url=http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED360376&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED360376|issn=08180563}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Brady|first=Laurie|title=An Educology of Teaching: A Models Approach|journal=International Journal of Educology|volume=2|issue=1|pages=67–74|publisher=Educology Research Associates|year=1988|url=http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED360376&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED360376|issn=08180563}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Brady|first=Laurie|title=An Educological Analysis of Curriculum Design|journal=International Journal of Educology|volume=3|issue=1|pages=81–92|publisher=Educology Research Associates|year=1989|url=http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED360376&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED360376|issn=08180563}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Brady|first=Laurie|title=An Educology of School Management: The Professional Development Objectives of School Principals|journal=International Journal of Educology|volume=5|issue=2|pages=97–107|publisher=Educology Research Associates|year=1991|url=http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED360376&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED360376|issn=08180563}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Brady|first=Laurie|title=Outcome Based Education: Imposing a Model for Curriculum Development|journal=International Journal of Educology|volume=9|issue=2|pages=180–192|publisher=Educology Research Associates|year=1995|url=http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED360376&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED360376|issn=08180563}}</ref> Berdine F. Nel,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Nel |first1=Berdine F |title=From Fundamental Pedagogics to Educology: A Solution or a Substitution |year=1980 |publisher=South African Association for Advancement of Education |location=Durban, Natal |isbn=00909072337}}</ref> Maryann J. Ehle<ref>{{cite book |last=Ehle|first=Maryann |editor-first=James E| editor-last=Christensen |title=Educology 86: Proceedings of a Conference on Educational Research, Inquiry and Development with an Educological Perspective, Canberra, July 20-12, 1986|publisher=Sydney: Educology Research Associates |year=1986 |pages=34–50|chapter=Chapter 3: The Educology of Self Perception |isbn=0949784052}}</ref> and others.<ref>For others who have contributed to the development of educology, see {{Cite journal|journal=International Journal of Educology|volume=1 onwards|publisher=Educology Research Associates|date=1987 onwards|url=http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED360376&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED360376|issn=08180563}}, in which more than 100 articles in educology have been published to date.</ref>

==Developments since the 1980s==
In Europe, important work on clarification of the concept of the term educology in the 1980s and 1990s was done by Anton Monshouwer,<ref>See
*{{cite book |last=Monshouwer|first=Anton |editor-first=James E| editor-last=Christensen |title=Perspectives on Education as Educology |publisher=Washington, DC: University Press of America|year=1981 |pages=51–86|chapter=Chapter 3: The Formal Structure of an Emerging Science of Education, Part I: Some Opinions about the Scientific Status of a Science of Education |isbn=0819113934}}
*{{cite book |last=Monshouwer|first=Anton |editor-first=James E| editor-last=Christensen |title=Perspectives on Education as Educology |publisher=Washington, DC: University Press of America|year=1981 |pages=159–196|chapter=Chapter 7: The Formal Structure of an Emerging Science of Education, Part II: The Concept of Science |isbn=0819113934}}</ref> Theo Oudkerk Pool,<ref>{{cite book |last=Pool|first=Theo Oudkerk |editor-first=James E| editor-last=Christensen |title=Educology 86: Proceedings of a Conference on Educational Research, Inquiry and Development with an Educological Perspective, Canberra, July 20-12, 1986|publisher=Sydney: Educology Research Associates |year=1986 |pages=182–220|chapter=Chapter 12: Teacher Education in an Educological Perspective |isbn=0949784052}}</ref> Wolfgang Brezinka,<ref>Of Wolfgang Brezinka's many publications, two of the most important ones in English are:
*{{cite book |last=Brezinka|first=Wolfgang |editor-first=James E| editor-last=Christensen |title=Perspectives on Education as Educology |publisher=Washington, DC: University Press of America|year=1981 |pages=7–26|chapter=Chapter 1: Meta-Theory of Education: European Contributions from an Empirical-Analytic Point of View |isbn=0819113934}}
*{{cite book |last1=Brezinka |first1=Wolfgang (Translated from the German by James Stuart Brice and Raoul Eshelman) |title=Philosophy of Educational Knowledge: An Introduction to the Foundations of Science of Education, Philosophy of Education and Practical Pedagogics|year=1992 |publisher=Kluwer Academic Publishers |location=Dordrecht |isbn=0792315227}}</ref> Nikola Pastuovic<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Pastuovic|first=Nikola|title=The Science(s) of Adult Education|journal=International Journal of Lifelong Education|volume=14|issue=4|pages=273–291|publisher=Routledge Taylor & Francis Group|year=1995|url=http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a746845434&db=all|issn=Print ISSN: 0260-1370. Online ISSN: 1464-519X}}</ref> and in the 2000s by Birgitta Qvarsell,<ref>{{cite book |last=Qvarsell|first=Birgitta |editor-first=Birgitta| editor-last=Qvarsell |editor2-first=Christoph|editor2-last=Wulf |title=Culture and Education. European Studies in Education. Volume 16 |publisher=Munster, Germany: Waxman|year=2003|pages=13–24 |chapter=Cultures as a Construction for Educational Research |isbn=3830912277}}</ref> Kestutis Pukelis and Izabela Savickiene,<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Pukelis|first1=Kestutis|last2=Savickiene|first2=Izabela|title=The Challenge of Establishing a Common Set of Terms for Discourse, Inquiry, and Research in Educational Science: An Analytically Oriented Philosophy of Educology|journal=International Journal of Educology|volume=Lithuanian Special Issue|pages=14–27|publisher=Educology Research Associates|year=2005|url=http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED494894.pdf|issn=08180563}}</ref> among many others. The ''International Journal of Educology'' (initially published in Australia and later in the USA) commenced publication in 1987, and it continues in electronic form into the present.<ref>See {{Cite journal|journal=International Journal of Educology|volume=1 onwards|publisher=Educology Research Associates|date=1987 onwards|url=http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED360376&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED360376|issn=08180563}}</ref> The ''IJE'' has been an important forum for the clarification and extension of educology, with the publication of over 100 refereed articles in educology over a period exceeding 20 years. Some universities have adopted the term for their publications.<ref>For example the College of Education of the [[University of Illinois at Chicago]] commenced a newsletter named ''Educology'' in 2009; see http://education.uic.edu/newsletter/20090401/</ref> Other universities have used the concept of ''educology'' for institutional organization and curriculum arrangements. Since the dissolution of the USSR in 1991, some universities in the Baltic countries and elsewhere in Europe have established departments and faculties of educology and offer courses and degrees in educology. They include [[Siauliai University]] (Lithuania), [[Vilnius Pedagogical University]] (Lithuania), [[Vytautas Magnus University]] (Lithuania), [[Mykolas Romeris University]] (Lithuania), [[Kaunas University of Medicine]] (Lithuania), [[Tallinn University]] (Estonia), [[Stockholm University]] (Sweden), [[University of Presov]] (Slovakia)<ref>http://www.unipo.sk/en/932</ref> and [[Comenius University in Bratislava]] (Slovakia).<ref>See the course catalogues of these universities.</ref> In addition to academic institutions, some proprietary concerns have adopted the term in either the name of their businesses or in their publications.

==Derivation==
'''The term ''educology''''' derives from the term ''[[education]]'' and the suffix ''-logy''. The term was coined to dispel the confusion caused by using the term ''[[education]]'' to name the process of [[teaching]], [[studying]] and learning under guidance, and calling [[knowledge]] about the educational process by the same name, ''[[education]]''.<ref>The first publications in English to make explicit the distinction between education, the process, and educology, the knowledge about the process, were:
*{{Cite journal|last=Maccia|first=Elizabeth Steiner|title=Logic of Education and of Educatology: Dimensions of Philosophy of Education|journal=Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Philosophy of Education Society|publisher=Lawrence, Kansas: Philosophy of Education Society| year=1964|issn=87566575}}
*{{cite book|last=Steiner [Maccia]|first=Elizabeth|editor-first=James E| editor-last=Christensen|title=Perspectives on Education as Educology|publisher=Washington, DC: University Press of America|year=1981 |pages=87–100| chapter=Chapter 4: Logic of Education and of Educatology: Dimensions of Philosophy of Education|isbn=0819113934}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Maccia|first=Elizabeth Steiner|title=Towards Educational Theorizing without Mistake|journal=Studies in Philosophy and Education|volume=7|issue=2|pages=154–157|date=Sep 1970|issn=00393746}}
*{{cite book|last=Steiner [Maccia]|first=Elizabeth|editor-first=John Martin| editor-last=Rich|title=Readings in the Philosophy of Education, Second Edition| publisher=Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Company|year=1972|chapter=The Non-Identity of Philosophy and Theory of Education|isbn=9780534002046}}
*{{cite book|last=Maccia|first=George|editor-first=George F| editor-last=Kneller|title=Foundations of Education, Second Edition| publisher=New York: John Wiley & Sons|year=1967|chapter=Science and Science of Education| isbn=0471495050}}
*{{cite book|last=Maccia|first=George|editor-first=James E| editor-last=Christensen|title=Perspectives on Education as Educology|publisher=Washington, DC: University Press of America|year=1981 |pages=27–50| chapter=Chapter 2: The Genesis of Educology|isbn=0819113934}}</ref>

'''A range of arguments''' for the use of the term ''educology'' has been developed over the past fifty years and more. Some have argued that the term ''educology'' should be used to name only ''[[philosophy of education]]'', or only ''[[theory of education]]'',<ref>{{cite book|last=Steiner [Maccia]|first=Elizabeth|editor-first=John Martin| editor-last=Rich|title=Readings in the Philosophy of Education, Second Edition| publisher=Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Company|year=1972|chapter=The Non-Identity of Philosophy and Theory of Education|isbn=9780534002046}}</ref> or only scientific knowledge about education ([[science of education]])<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Jelenc|first=Zoran|title=Educology|journal=Theories and General Learning, Europe, Eureda, A Glossary for Adult Learning in Europe, Terms and Definitions, Library, EAEA (European Association for the Education of Adults|year=2010|url=http://www.eaea.org/index.php.?k=15104}}</ref> or only knowledge about effective practices in education (praxiological knowledge, also spelled ''[[praxeology]]'').<ref>A good example of this argument is the work of John Biggs:
*{{Cite journal|last=Biggs|first=John B|title=Educology: Theory of Educational Practice|journal=Contemporary Educational Psychology|volume=1|issue=3|pages=274–284|year=1976|issn=0361476X}}
*{{cite book |last=Biggs|first=John B |editor-first=James E| editor-last=Christensen |title=Perspectives on Education as Educology |publisher=Washington, DC: University Press of America|year=1981 |pages=197–212 |chapter=Chapter 8: Educology: The Science of Effective Education |isbn=0819113934}}</ref><ref>Tadeusz Kortabinski has provided a general definition and explanation of praxiology in
*{{cite book |last=Kotarbinski|first=Tadeusz |editor1-first=Ernest|editor1-last=Nagel |editor2-first=Patrick |editor2-last=Suppes |editor3-first=Alfred (Eds)|editor3-last=Tarski|title=Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science|publisher=Palo Alto, California : Stanford University Press. Library of Congress Catalog Number 62-9620|year=1962 |pages=211–223 |chapter=Praxiological Sentences and How They Are Proved|isbn=0444104917|url=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=3jKsAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR5&dq=%22Logic,+Methodology+and+Philosophy+of+Science%22+intitle:Logic+intitle:Methodology+intitle:and+intitle:Philosophy+intitle:of+intitle:Science+inpublisher:Stanford+inpublisher:University+inpublisher:Press&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&as_brr=0&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false}}
*{{cite book|last=Kotarbinski (Translated by Olgierd Wojtasiewicz)|first=Tadeusz|title=Praxiology: An Introduction to the Sciences of Efficient Action| publisher=London: Pergamon Press|year=1965|isbn=B001OC3HSA}}</ref>

'''The prevailing and generally accepted argument''' which has emerged out of the [[discourse]] among educologists over the last half of the 20th century is that the term ''educology'' names the entire fund of [[knowledge]] about [[education]] including theoretical, philosophical, scientific and praxiological knowledge.<ref name=brezinkaetal/>

==Argument for the term "educology"==
Within common usage of the English language and also within special usages (i.e. technical usages) of that language, several terms are used to name the fund of recorded knowledge about education. Included among those terms are ''[[pedagogy]]'', ''[[andragogy]]'',<ref>For the argument that ''andragogy'' is an appropriate name for ''knowledge about education'', see [[Malcolm Knowles]] and [[K. Patricia Cross]]:
*{{cite book |last1=Knowles |first1=Malcolm S. |title=The Modern Practice of Adult Education: Andragogy versus Pedagogy|year=1970 |publisher=Association Press |location=New York |isbn=B001BLH5DW}}
*{{cite book |last1=Cross |first1=K. Patricia |title=Adults as Learners: Increasing Participation and Facilitating Learning|year=1981 |publisher=Jossey-Bass |location=San Francisco|isbn=0875894917}}</ref> ''[[ethology]]'',<ref>See [[John Stuart Mill]] (1846), ''A System of Logic,'' Book VI, Chapter III, Paragraph 4, for the argument for ''ethology''.</ref> ''[[Education]]'', ''Professional Education'' and ''[[psychopedagogy]]''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Stones|first=E.|title=Psychopedagogy: Psychological Theory and the Practice of Teaching|publisher=Methuen|year=1979|location=London|isbn=0416713408}}</ref> However, educologists argue that one term performs the job of naming the fund of knowledge about education even better than these six: ''educology''.<ref>The argument for the term ''educology'' as an appropriate name for knowledge about education was originally developed by Elizabeth Steiner Maccia: {{Cite journal|last=Maccia|first=Elizabeth Steiner|title=Logic of Education and of Educatology: Dimensions of Philosophy of Education|journal=Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Philosophy of Education Society|publisher=Lawrence, Kansas: Philosophy of Education Society| year=1964|issn=87566575}}</ref><ref>Part of the history of the use of the term ''educology'' is recounted in
*{{cite book |editor-first=James E| editor-last=Christensen|title=Perspectives on Education as Educology|publisher=Washington, DC: University Press of America|year=1981 |isbn=0819113934}}
*{{cite book |last1=Christensen |first1=James E|last2=Fisher|first2=James E|title=Organization and Colleges of Education: An Educological Perspective |year=1983|publisher=Educology Research Associates|location=Sydney|isbn=0949784028}}</ref><ref>An exhaustive historical analysis of the concept underlying the term ''educology'' is presented in {{cite book |last1=Brezinka |first1=Wolfgang (Translated from the German by James Stuart Brice and Raoul Eshelman) |title=Philosophy of Educational Knowledge: An Introduction to the Foundations of Science of Education, Philosophy of Education and Practical Pedagogics|year=1992 |publisher=Kluwer Academic Publishers |location=Dordrecht |isbn=0792315227}}</ref> Educologists maintain that the term ''educology'' suits the job best for three compelling reasons:
#It names nothing less than the fund of knowledge about education.
#It names nothing more than the fund of knowledge about education.
#It prevents conceptual conflation of
::(a) the educational process with
::(b) recorded propositional knowledge about that process.
Educologists argue that the concept of educology implies the inclusion of the entire fund of recorded propositional knowledge about the entire process, from nascence to senescence. It is not limited only to knowledge about the education of children ([[pedagogy]])<ref>The argument for the term ''educology'' over the term ''[[pedagogy]]'' is cogently stated in {{cite book |last1=Steiner |first1=Elizabeth |title=Educology for the Free|year=1981|publisher=Philosophical Library |location=New York |isbn=802223737}}, and it is iterated in{{cite book |last1=Christensen |first1=James E|title=Curriculum, Education, and Educology |year=1981 |publisher=Educology Research Associates |location=Sydney |isbn=094978401X}}</ref> or to that of male adults ([[andragogy]]). It is not recorded knowledge about processes other than education, such as knowledge about character development ([[ethology]])<ref>See {{cite book |last1=Steiner |first1=Elizabeth |title=Educology for the Free|year=1981|publisher=Philosophical Library |location=New York |isbn=802223737}}, pp. 50-51, for the full argument for the use of the term ''educology'' over ''[[ethology]]''.</ref> or a combination of psychological knowledge and knowledge about the practice of teaching ([[psychopedagogy]]). The name ''educology'' eliminates the ambiguity which is created by naming the process of guided study with the term ''education'' and naming the fund of recorded [[propositional knowledge]] about that process with the same term ''education''.

Educologists demonstrate the power of the term ''educology'' to dispel ambiguity through techniques such as word substitution in sentences. For example, the practice of capitalizing the term ''education'' and of adding the term ''professional'' to the term ''education'' are attempts to remove ambiguity. Educologists argue that the use of these two terms (''Education'' and ''Professional Education'') are not nearly as cogent in dispelling the ambiguity as is the use of the term ''educology''. This can be illustrated with, for example, the sentence,
{{quotation|In their ['''education'''] to qualify as primary school teachers, students study some psychology, sociology and ['''''education'''''].}}
The ambiguity created in the meaning of the sentence can be reduced with some substitutions for the term ''education''.
#In their ['''study under guidance'''] to qualify as primary school teachers, students study some psychology, sociology and ['''''Education'''''].
#In their ['''study under guidance'''] to qualify as primary school teachers, students study some psychology, sociology and ['''''Professional Education'''''].
#In their ['''study under guidance'''] to qualify as primary school teachers, students study some psychology, sociology and ['''''educology'''''].
Educologists argue that each of the term substitutions reduces the ambiguity progressively. The third term substitution, '''''educology''''' for '''''education''''', reduces the ambiguity altogether, removes the anomalies in conventions for capitalization and conforms with the convention for naming funds of knowledge with the suffix ''-logy'': for example, ''psychology'' from ''psyche'' (mind) plus ''-logy'' (knowledge about); ''sociology'' from ''society'' plus ''–logy'' (knowledge about); ''educology'' from ''education'' plus ''–logy'' (knowledge about).

Educologists maintain that there are at least three compelling reasons for creating new terms in discourse about the educational process.
#A new term is indicated when a new meaning arises for which there is no satisfactory existing term.
#It is indicated when a meaning is misnamed by current usage.
#A new term is called for when current usage is ambiguous.

Educologists conclude that the case for the term ''educology'' is supported by all three reasons. The term ''education'' functions ambiguously to name the process and also to name warranted assertions about the process. To educologists, it is a misnomer to name warranted assertions about the educational process with the term ''education''. It is like using the term ''animals'' to name zoology. It is a category mistake. The term ''educology'' names a new meaning for which there is no satisfactory existing term. It names, and only names, and names nothing more than, nor less than, knowledge about education.<ref name=brezinkaetal/>

==Educational discourse and educological discourse==
Educologists recognize that there is discourse ''in'' education and discourse ''about'' education.<ref name=chrisanalytic>{{cite book|last1=Christensen |first1=James E|last2=Fisher |first2=James E|title=Analytic Philosophy of Education as a Subdiscipline of Educology|year=1979 |publisher=University Press of America|location=Washington, DC|isbn=0819108022}}</ref> Discourse ''in'' education occurs in the form of talk and writing within the educational process. Discourse ''in'' education is one of many phenomena within the educational process. Discourse ''about'' education, when it is sound, well founded and warranted, is educology. These two categories of discourse are illustrated in Table 1.
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Example of discourse ''in'' education
(educational discourse)
! Example of discourse ''about'' education
(educological discourse)
|-
| '''The scenario is that Mark is a single parent who lives in Los Angeles. He works as an insurance adjuster. He has one child, a daughter, Bronwyn, who is just over two years old. Here is a conversation between them.
| '''This is an educological analysis of the conversation between Mark and Bronwyn.'''
|-
|
*Bronwyn: ''Cat! Cat!''
*Mark: ''Did you see the cat? Daddy doesn’t see the cat. Where is it?''
*Bronwyn: ''Cat gone. All gone.''
*Mark: ''Daddy doesn’t see the cat. Did the cat go away?''
*Bronwyn: ''See cat!''
*Mark: ''Where did the cat go? Drink your juice now.''
*Bronwyn: ''Juice!''
*Mark: ''That’s right, drink your juice.''
*Bronwyn: ''Drink? Cat! Cat!''
*Mark: ''Finish your juice.''
*Bronwyn: ''Finish. Juice all gone.''
*Mark: ''Good. You’ve finished your juice. Your juice is all gone.''
| From an ''educological'' viewpoint, the conversation between Bronwyn and Mark is typical of the educational process. The episode has all of the distinguishing characteristics of an educational event or episode.
#Bronwyn is playing the role of student.
#Mark is playing the role of teacher.
#The content which Bronwyn is [[studying]] under guidance and Mark is teaching is the [[syntax]] (order), [[semantics]] (meaning) and [[grammar]] (inflections) of the English language.
#The setting is the physical milieu of the home, the social milieu of the single parent family, and the cultural milieu of urban America.
#The teaching methods which Mark uses include modeling, asking questions and giving directives. Bronwyn’s sentences are much shorter than Mark’s – one, two or three words. Mark extends the sentences and puts in all of the words required for correct grammatical, syntactical and semantic use of the language. This provides a model for Bronwyn to imitate, reduce, reconstruct and transform into new sentences.
#Bronwyn’s [[study]] methods include imitation, practice, reduction, reconstruction and transformation.
#Mark’s teaching style is fatherly, caring and supportive.
#Bronwyn’s study style is natural, unselfconscious and spontaneous.
'''The activities of teaching'''. Mark does his [[teaching]] as a matter of course, without being selfconscious of his teaching. Educologically, this is significant because it illustrates that it is possible to act intentionally without being fully selfconscious the whole time of the intentionality. This occurs especially when the intentional action has become integrated into a person’s patterns of conduct and thought in the form of habits.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Green |first1=Thomas E |title=The Activities of Teaching |year=1971 |publisher=McGraw-Hill Inc |location=New York |isbn=096583395X}}</ref>

'''The activities of studying'''. The same is true of Bronwyn’s [[studying]] under guidance. Intentional, unselfconscious performances are what Bronwyn and Mark are undertaking with each other in the studying and teaching of language.

'''Methods and intentions in teaching'''. It is part of Mark’s set of habits to expand what Bronwyn says into full, [[syntactically]], [[grammatically]] and [[semantically]] correct sentences. His intention is to help Bronwyn to develop her ability to make such sentences, even though he may not be selfconscious of his intentionality because it has become habit.

'''Methods and intentions in studying'''. In turn, Bronwyn accepts his guidance and uses it, sometimes unselfconsciously and sometimes consciously, to signify [[meaning]] with her words. All of the elements for an educational transaction are present: teacher, student, content and setting, including physical, social and cultural.

'''Unofficial vs. official education'''. Mark and Bronwyn are engaged in unofficial (vs. official) education. There is no written lesson plan, instructional program, syllabus, curriculum, assessment or certification of achievement. There are no licensed teachers, principals or superintendents. The conversation is an unofficial educational episode involving a parent and child.
|}
'''Table 1: Example of educational discourse and educological discourse'''

==Study, education, and educology==
From an educological perspective, the process of education is a process of teaching and studying some content within some setting with the intention that something worthwhile and valuable will be learned. Again, from an educological perspective, studying is the set of activities one undertakes to learn something.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Fisher|first=James E|title=The Domain of Educology|journal=International Journal of Educology|volume=10|issue=1|pages=66–143|publisher=Educology Research Associates|year=1996|url=http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED360376&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED360376|issn=08180563}}</ref>

Study can be done independently, outside of the educational process, without the guidance of a teacher. And it can be undertaken under the guidance of a teacher, within the educational process. Education is a process about which one can conduct inquiry and research. Educology is the fund of knowledge which is produced from well disciplined and successful inquiry and research about the process.<ref>One of the best sources for a clear explication of this distinction is in
*{{cite book |last=Brezinka|first=Wolfgang |editor-first=James E| editor-last=Christensen |title=Perspectives on Education as Educology |publisher=Washington, DC: University Press of America|year=1981 |pages=7–26|chapter=Chapter 1: Meta-Theory of Education: European Contributions from an Empirical-Analytic Point of View |isbn=0819113934}}
*{{cite book |last1=Brezinka |first1=Wolfgang (Translated from the German by James Stuart Brice and Raoul Eshelman) |title=Philosophy of Educational Knowledge: An Introduction to the Foundations of Science of Education, Philosophy of Education and Practical Pedagogics|year=1992 |publisher=Kluwer Academic Publishers |location=Dordrecht |isbn=0792315227}}</ref>

Educology is not the study of education because educology is not an activity. Study is. One can study educology, i.e. undertake activities to learn knowledge about education.<ref>{{cite book|last=Christensen|first=James E|editor-first=James E| editor-last=Christensen|title=Perspectives on Education as Educology|publisher=Washington, DC: University Press of America|year=1981 |pages=121–158| chapter=Chapter 6: Educology and Some Related Concepts|isbn=0819113934}}</ref> But the activity of studying about education is not the fund of knowledge about education.

The study of education (i.e. undertaking study about the educational process), if conducted as serious, well disciplined inquiry and research, can produce educology.

The study of educology (i.e. undertaking study about the fund of knowledge about education), conducted independently or conducted under the guidance of a teacher, can lead a student to learn about education and develop an understanding of education.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Christensen|first=James E|title=Education, Educology and Educological Discourse: Theory and Structure for Education and Constructive Action in Education|journal=International Journal of Educology|volume=1|issue=1|pages=1–32|publisher=Educology Research Associates|year=1987|url=http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED360376&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED360376|issn=08180563}}</ref>

==Disciplines requisite for producing educology==
Educology is a fund of knowledge, not a discipline. But educologists use a set of disciplines to produce educology. The set of disciplines requisite for producing educology includes the sets of techniques and rules which are necessary for conducting at least three categories of inquiry and research:<ref name=chrisanalytic/>
# analytic inquiry and research, which requires the use of the principle of necessity reasoning,
# normative inquiry and research, which requires the use of the principle of normative or evaluative reasoning,<ref name=taylornormative>{{cite book |last1=Taylor |first1=Paul | title=Normative Discourse |year=1961 |publisher=Prentice-Hall, Inc |location=Englewood Cliffs, NJ |url=http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=5965524}}</ref> and
# empirical inquiry and research (including experimental and non-experimental research), which requires the use of the principle of observation (including [[extrospection]] and [[introspection]]).
Educologists use the term ''process of inquiry'' to mean the same as the process of asking questions, formulating answers to those questions and presenting necessary and sufficient evidence to warrant that the answers which are formulated are necessarily true, in the case of analytic educological facts, or very highly probably true, in the case of empirical educological facts, or are valid, sound and fruitful, in the case of educological explanatory theories and educological justificatory arguments.<ref name=chrisanalytic/>

==The educological perspective==
The educological perspective is inclusive of the following perspectives in discourse about the educational process or about aspects of the educational process:
# the scientific perspective (characterizing what is);
# the praxiological perspective (characterizing what is effective);
# the historical perspective (characterizing what has been);
# the jurisprudential perspective (characterizing what is legally allowed, prohibited and required);
# the analytic philosophical perspective (characterizing meanings of terms and sentences);
# the normative philosophical perspective (characterizing what is good, desirable, ethical and sound).
Educologists use one, or a selection and sometimes all of these perspectives in their inquiry. For example, in conducting inquiry about secondary education, educologists typically address the questions of:
#What is secondary education? (an analytic philosophical educological question)
#What is good secondary education? (a normative philosophical educological question)
#What are current and prevailing practices and states of affairs in secondary education? (a scientific educological question)
#What are effective practices which achieve desired results in secondary education? (a praxiological educological question)
#What have been past practices and states of affairs in secondary education? (a historical educological question)
#What laws, rules and regulations govern secondary education? (a jurisprudential educological question)
Well founded and warranted answers to these questions are all part of the educology of secondary education.<ref>These distinctions are defined, explicated and illustrated in:
*{{cite book |last1=Christensen |first1=James E|last2=Fisher|first2=James E|title=Analytic Philosophy of Education as a Subdiscipline of Educology|pages=129–147|year=1979|publisher=University Press of America|location=Washington, DC|isbn=0819108022}}
*{{cite book |last=Brezinka|first=Wolfgang |editor-first=James E| editor-last=Christensen |title=Perspectives on Education as Educology |publisher=Washington, DC: University Press of America|year=1981 |pages=7–26|chapter=Chapter 1: Meta-Theory of Education: European Contributions from an Empirical-Analytic Point of View |isbn=0819113934}}
*{{cite book |last=Perry|first=James F |editor-first=James E| editor-last=Christensen |title=Perspectives on Education as Educology |publisher=Washington, DC: University Press of America|year=1981 |pages=213–222|chapter=Chapter 9: Praxiology of Education as a Branch of Educology |isbn=0819113934}}</ref>

==Education as the dependent variable==
In contrast to other viewpoints (in the sense of arrangements of discourse, e.g. [[sociology]], [[anthropology]], [[psychology]]), the educological perspective treats the educational process as the [[dependent variable]], and it is used to conduct research and inquiry about the effects of other factors, such as social settings, economic activity and political attitudes, upon the educational process.<ref name=steinerfreedom>{{cite book |last1=Steiner |first1=Elizabeth |title=Educology for the Free|year=1981|publisher=Philosophical Library |location=New York |isbn=802223737}}</ref>

Of course, regardless of how a field of phenomena is described or characterized, that field remains unchanged. Spoken or written discourse about the way a plant uses sunlight, water and soil to grow does not affect the plant in its use of those things. We can use spoken or written discourse, however, to take effective action in relation to a plant to influence its growth.

And so it is with the different arrangements of discourse (or viewpoints) about the educational process. None of the arrangements ([[sociology]], [[anthropology]], [[psychology]], educology, etc.) changes the form and function of the educational process. All can be used to take some kind of action in relation to the educational process to achieve some intended outcome or desired goal, aim, objective or state of affairs.<ref name=steinerfreedom/>

==The domain of educology==
The domain or territory of educology is the set of all phenomena within the educational process. Inquiry and research from an educological perspective is undertaken about this set of phenomena with the intention of producing warranted assertions, or knowledge, about education. Part of the domain or territory of educology is represented in the following table.<ref>See
*{{cite book |last1=Brezinka |first1=Wolfgang (Translated from the German by James Stuart Brice and Raoul Eshelman) |title=Philosophy of Educational Knowledge: An Introduction to the Foundations of Science of Education, Philosophy of Education and Practical Pedagogics|year=1992 |publisher=Kluwer Academic Publishers |location=Dordrecht |isbn=0792315227}}
*{{cite book |last1=Christensen |first1=James E|title=Education and Human Development: A Study in Educology |year=1981|publisher=Educology Research Associates|location=Sydney|isbn=0949784001}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Christensen|first=James E|title=Education, Educology and Educological Discourse: Theory and Structure for Education and Constructive Action in Education|journal=International Journal of Educology|volume=1|issue=1|pages=1–32|publisher=Educology Research Associates|year=1987|url=http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED360376&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED360376|issn=08180563}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Fisher|first=James E|title=The Territory of Educology|journal=International Journal of Educology|volume=5|issue=1|pages=18–45|publisher=Educology Research Associates|year=1991|url=http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED360376&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED360376|issn=08180563}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Fisher|first=James E|title=The Domain of Educology|journal=International Journal of Educology|volume=10|issue=1|pages=66–143|publisher=Educology Research Associates|year=1996|url=http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED360376&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED360376|issn=08180563}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Educational process
! Levels of the educational process
! Basic components of education
! Derivative components of education
! Basic processes in education
! Processes closely related to education
|-
| Official education
(conducted in schools, academies, colleges, institutes & universities with written lesson plans, instructional programs, syllabii, curricula, assessments or certifications of achievement, licensed teachers, enrolled students, principals, superintendents, boards of trustees or governors)
|
#Early childhood
#Primary
#Secondary
#Adult, further, tertiary
|
#Teacher
#Student
#Content
#Milieu
|
#Intentions
#Strategies
#Methods
#Styles
#Resources
#Language
#Curriculum
|
#Teaching
#Studying
#Learning
|
#Human development
#Socialization
#Enculturation
#Counseling
|-
| Unofficial education
(conducted outside of schools, academies, colleges, institutes & universities and without written lesson plans, instructional programs, syllabii, curricula, assessments or certifications of achievement, licensed teachers, enrolled students, principals, superintendents, boards of trustees or governors)
|
#Early childhood
#Middle childhood
#Adolescence
#Early adulthood
#Middle adulthood
#Senescence
|
#Teacher
#Student
#Content
#Milieu
|
#Intentions
#Strategies
#Methods
#Styles
#Resources
#Language
#Curriculum
|
#Teaching
#Studying
#Learning
|
#Human development
#Socialization
#Enculturation
#Counseling
|}
'''Table 2: Categories of phenomena within the educational process for educological inquiry'''

==Logic, techniques and products of educological inquiry==
The relationship between educological inquiry and educology is the relationship between a process and its product. Educological inquiry uses a logic of inquiry and a set of techniques of inquiry to produce a set of products of inquiry.<ref name=brezinkaetal/>

'''Logic of inquiry'''. The set of disciplines which is used in the verification of statements (i.e. the warranting of assertions) is the logic of an inquiry. At least three principles of verification are used in educological inquiry.
#'''''Principle of necessity reasoning'''''. There is the principle of necessity reasoning, in which the logic requires that a statement be judged true (i.e. warranted) when it is necessarily implied by a set of premises (i.e. a set of preceding statements). The principle of necessity reasoning is the same as the principle of [[deduction]].
#'''''Principle of evaluative reasoning'''''. There is the principle of evaluative reasoning, in which the logic requires that a statement be judged true when it is necessarily implied by a set of criteria (i.e. standards or rules or both). In addition, those criteria must be consistent with a set of values or norms to which all persons can reasonably adhere if they were in the same set of circumstances. The principle of evaluative reasoning is the same as the principle of evaluation or the principle of [[normative]] reasoning.<ref name=taylornormative/>
#'''''Principle of observation'''''. In addition to deduction and evaluation, there is the principle of [[observation]], in which the logic requires that a statement be judged true (i.e. an assertion be affirmed as warranted) if it is consistent with observable evidence (i.e. evidence which can be adduced by [[extrospection]] and/or [[introspection]]).

'''Techniques of inquiry'''. The actual behaviors performed and the procedures followed in adducing evidence to verify a statement (warrant an assertion) are the techniques of an inquiry. Examples include conducting surveys, experimentation, drawing analogies, running simulations, locating documents, taking notes, classifying objects, defining terms, clarifying concepts, etc.

'''Products of inquiry'''. The product of successful inquiry about the educational process is educology. Educology is the set of warranted assertions (i.e. statements which are judged to be true) about some aspect of the process of teaching, studying and guided intentional learning. The set can be classified into at least three categories, viz. analytic, normative and empirical knowledge.

'''Discipline for forming educology'''. The logic and techniques for conducting inquiry about the educational process constitute the discipline requisite for conducting sound and productive educological research and inquiry, including retro-search, re-search and neo-search.<ref name=steinerlater>{{cite book |last=Steiner|first=Elizabeth |editor-first=James E| editor-last=Christensen |title=Perspectives on Education as Educology |publisher=Washington, DC: University Press of America|year=1981 |pages=101–120|chapter=Chapter 5: Educology: Thirteen Years Later|isbn=0819113934}}</ref> The product of sound, well disciplined and fruitful educological inquiry is educology.<ref name=brezinkaetal/>
(See Table 3.)
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Kind of inquiry
! Logic of inquiry
! Product of inquiry
! Techniques of inquiry
|-
| Analytic educological inquiry
| Principle of deduction (necessity reasoning)
| Warranted analytic assertions (analytic educology)
| Conceptual analysis, propositional analysis, definition, explication, illustration, model case, contrary case, borderline case, invented case, related concept, unrelated concept, practical consequences, term substitutions, subscripts, invented terms, statistical analyses (analysis of variance, correlation, etc.)
|-
| Normative educological inquiry
| Principle of evaluation (evaluative reasoning)
| Warranted normative assertions (normative educology)
| Value clarification, value validation, value vindication, rational value choice
|-
| Empirical educological inquiry
| Principle of observation (extrospection and introspection)
| Warranted empirical assertions (empirical educology)
| Survey, experimentation, quasi-experimentation, analogy, unobtrusive measures, case studies, participant observation, systematic observation, simulations, ethnographies, naturalistic studies
|}
'''Table 3: The discipline requisite for producing educology'''

==Critical categories for arrangement of educology into subfunds==
From an educological point of view, three categories which are critical for the arrangement of the product of educological inquiry and research are: (1) the phenomena about which inquiry is conducted; (2) the purpose of the inquiry and (3) subfunds of educology.<ref name=brezinkaetal/>

'''Phenomena of inquiry'''. The something which is investigated in the act of research (including retro-search, re-search and neo-search)<ref name=steinerlater/> is the set of phenomena being inquired about, or the phenomena of inquiry, or the object of knowledge. Phenomena in the educational process can be classified into many categories. Seven of the critical categories are:
#implications of educational discourse (discourse within education),
#worthwhile policies, practices, goals and states of affairs for and within education,
#education in past times and ages,
#existing educational phenomena,
#effective educational practices,
#effective administration, leadership and governance practices for education
# legal language which guides and regulates education.

'''Purpose of inquiry'''. The intended outcome of an inquiry is its purpose. At least five purposes of inquiry can be distinguished: (1) description, (2) explanation, (3) prediction, (4) prescription and (5) justification. <b><i>Description</i></b> is a set of statements which elucidates and characterizes a state of affairs as it exists. <b><i>Explanation</i></b> is a set of statements which provides reasons for why a state of affairs is as it is. <b><i>Prediction</i></b> is a set of statements which tells how a state of affairs will be. <b><i>Prescription</i></b> is a set of statements which tells what, how and when to do something in order to achieve a desired state of affairs. <b><i>Justification</i></b> is a set of statements which presents a coherent argument about why a state of affairs is good or bad, better or worse, ethical or inethical, valuable or worthless.

'''Subfunds of educology'''. An arrangement of educological assertions in relation to a nominated set of purposes and a specified set of features within the educational process constitutes a subfund of educology. At least seven major subfunds of educology can be distinguished. They include
#analytic philosophical educology
#normative philosophical educology
#historical educology
#scientific educology
#praxiological educology
#political praxiological educology
#jurisprudential educology
Other arrangements, of course, are possible. Examples include the
#educology of gender equity
#educology of moral judgment
#educology of motivation
#educology of play
#educology of social class
#educology of social justice
#educology of women
These other arrangements typically include (1) analytic philosophical, (2) normative philosophical, (3) historical, (4) scientific, (5) praxiological, (6) political praxiological and (7) jurisprudential educology within them. For example, the educology of women implies all seven subfunds. (See Table 4.)
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Subfund of educology
! Phenomena of inquiry (phenomena inquired about or object of inquiry)
! Purpose of inquiry
|-
| Analytic philosophical educology
| All discourse within education
| Description, explanation, prediction, prescription, justification of discourse within education,
|-
| Normative philosophical educology
| Intrinsically and extrinsically good and bad states of affairs for and within education
| Description, explanation, prediction, prescription, justification of intrinsically and extrinsically good states of affairs for and within education
|-
| Historical educology
| Education of past times and ages
| Description, explanation, justification of education in past times and ages
|-
| Jurisprudential educology
| Legal discourse which guides and regulates education
| Description, explanation, prescription and justification of legal discourse which guides and regulates education
|-
| Scientific educology
| Extant educational phenomena
| Description, explanation, prediction of educational phenomena
|-
| Praxiological educology
| Effective educational practices
| Description, explanation, prediction, prescription, justification of effective educational practices
|-
| Political praxiological educology
| Effective administration, leadership and governance practices for education
| Description, explanation, prediction, prescription, justification of effective administration, leadership and governance practices for education
|}
'''Table 4: Critical categories for arranging educology into subfunds of educology'''

==Four meanings of the term ''philosophy of education''==
At least four meanings of the term ''philosophy of education'' can be distinguished:
#[[analytic philosophy]] of education, or the fund of knowledge about meanings of concepts and propositions in educational discourse, or discourse within the educational process (this subfund of educology is analytic philosophical educology);
#[[normative]] philosophy of education, or the fund of knowledge about worthwhile states of affairs in the educational process (this subfund of educology is normative philosophical educology);
#analytic philosophy of educology, or the fund of knowledge about the meanings of concepts and propositions in educological language, or language about education;
#normative philosophy of educology, or the fund of knowledge about worthwhile states of affairs in educology (in discourse about education).
The first two are subfunds of educology. The third and fourth are knowledge about educology, not about education. Therefore, they are meta-educology, or knowledge about knowledge about education.<ref>Elizabeth Steiner coined the term ''meta-educology'' and explicated its meaning in {{cite book|last=Steiner|first=Elizabeth|editor-first=John Martin| editor-last=Rich|title=Readings in the Philosophy of Education, Second Edition| publisher=Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Company|year=1972|chapter=The Non-Identity of Philosophy and Theory of Education|isbn=9780534002046}}</ref>

'''Analytic philosophy of education''' (or analytic philosophical educology) is an arrangement of warranted assertions which describes and characterizes the necessary implications of concepts and propositions used in discourse within the process of education. The theorizing of George F. Kneller, [[Gilbert Ryle]], Israel Scheffler, B. Othanel Smith and James Gribble, for example, exemplifies analytic philosophy of education, or analytic philosophical educology.<ref>See
*{{cite book |last1=Kneller |first1=George F |title=Logic and Language of Education|year=1966|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|location=New York|isbn=0471495182}}
*{{cite book |last1=Ryle |first1=Gilbert |title=The Concept of Mind|year=1949|publisher=Barnes & Noble |location=New York|isbn=0389002321}}
*{{cite book |last1=Scheffler |first1=Israel |title=The Language of Education|year=1960|publisher=Charles C Thomas |location=Springfield, Illinois|isbn=0398016569}}
*{{cite book|last1=Smith |first1=B Othanel|last2=Ennis |first2=Robert H (editors)|title=Language and Concepts in Education|year=1961 |publisher=Rand McNally & Company|location=Chicago, Illinois|isbn=B000FMPTYU}}
*{{cite book |last1=Gribble |first1=James |title=Introduction to Philosophy of Education|year=1969|publisher=Allyn & Bacon|location=Boston|isbn=B0006BZ28S}}</ref>

Relevant to the explication of [[philosophy of education]] is the concept of ''language of education''. The term functions ambiguously. It can mean (1) ''language or discourse which occurs within the process of teaching and studying'', and it can also mean (2) ''language or discourse which is about the process of teaching and studying''. In its first sense, language of education means language ''in'' education. In its second sense, it means language ''about'' education. These two senses can be distinguished by subscripts:
#[language of education]₁ is language ''in'' education;
#[language of education]₂ is language ''about'' education.
What people say while engaged in the role of teaching or in the role of studying under guidance are examples of [language of education]₁ or language ''in'' education. Educology is [language of education]₂ or language ''about'' education. Educology is only that language or discourse about education which is warranted with evidence. Obviously not all discourse (or assertions) about education is warranted with evidence.<ref name="chrisanalytic"/>

'''Normative philosophical educology''' is the same as normative knowledge about education or normative philosophy of education. This arrangement of educology again requires the use of the three disciplines (analytic, normative, empirical). Questions of what is desirable and undesirable for and in the educational process (normative questions) lead on to questions of meaning (analytic questions) and questions of the actual consequences of actions or practices (empirical questions). To settle normative questions competently, one must also be able to settle questions of meaning and questions of actual consequences.

Normative philosophical educology addresses questions such as,
#''Is an inquiry approach to the teaching of natural sciences an intrinsically better one than an expository approach''?
#''Should corporal punishment be banished from schools''?

Normative philosophy of education (or normative philosophical educology) describes and characterizes that which has worth in education. The theorizing of Ernest Bayles, [[John Dewey]] and John Butler, for example, exemplifies normative philosophy of education, or normative philosophical educology.<ref>See for example
*{{cite book |last1=Bayles |first1=Ernest E |title=Pragmatism in Education|year=1966|publisher=Harper and Row|location=New York|isbn=0060408944}}
*{{cite book |last1=Dewey |first1=John |title=Democracy and Education|year=1916|publisher=The Macmillan Company|location=New York}}
*{{cite book |last1=Butler |first1=John |title=Idealism in Education|year=1966|publisher=Harper and Row|location=New York|isbn=B003P8DBV4}}</ref>

Normative philosophical educology is part of educology. It is a subfund of educology. Its focus is upon desirable and undesirable or relatively desirable and undesirable states of affairs, relationships, entities, practices, situations and the like within the educational process (and for the educational process).

Normative philosophical educology is closely related to [[philosophy of education]], but it is not identical with it. Often the term ''philosophy of education'' is used without distinguishing between normative and [[analytic philosophy]]. This usage conflates different arrangements of knowledge.<ref name=chrisanalytic/>

'''Philosophy of educology.''' Given the distinction between two senses of language of education, a third meaning of [[philosophy of education]] is possible to distinguish. Language about education can be an object of inquiry, or something about which inquiry can be conducted. It can be analyzed, and true statements about it can be produced. This set of true statements, or warranted assertions, constitutes a fund of knowledge. That fund includes the logic, epistemology, ethics and praxiology of making warranted assertions about the educational process. The fund includes that which is named by the term ''research methods'' or ''research methodologies'', because research methodologies about the educational process are included in the praxiology of ''educology'' (vs. the praxiology of ''education'').<ref name=brezinkaetal/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Steiner |first1=Elizabeth |title=Logical and Conceptual Analytic Techniques for Educational Researchers|year=1978|publisher=University Press of America|location=Washington, DC|isbn=0081910406X}}</ref>

In common usage discourse about education, the [[logic]] and [[epistemology]] of forming warranted assertions about the educational process is called ''philosophy of education'', because in common usage, the term ''education'' names (1) ''the teaching and studying process'' and (2) ''knowledge about that process''. But a name which more adequately characterizes the fund is the term ''philosophy of educology''. The substitution of the term ''educology'' for the term ''education'' in the name ''philosophy of education'' (making it ''philosophy of educology'') clarifies the point that the object of knowledge (i.e. that which the knowledge describes, characterizes and explains) is language (discourse) about education. Philosophy of educology includes '''analytic philosophy of educology''' and '''normative philosophy of educology'''.<ref name=chrisanalytic/>

==Educology and meta-educology==
In addition to educological inquiry and subfunds of educology, there is meta-educological inquiry and meta-educology. There is language (or discourse) ''within'' the educational process (what teachers say to students and vice versa) and language (or discourse) ''about'' the educational process (what is said about teachers and students). There can be warranted assertions about the educational process, i.e. verified statements about teachers and students. There can also be warranted assertions about what is said about teachers and students, i.e. verified statements about statements about the educational process. Warranted assertions about the educational process are educology. Warranted assertions about statements about the educational process are meta-educology.<ref name=brezinkaetal/> The statement,
{{quotation|''Compulsory schooling is a requirement which all contemporary nations have stipulated in law''}}
is an example of educology. In contrast, the statement,
{{quotation|''The statement, "Compulsory school is a requirement which all contemporary nations have stipulated in law," requires verification by examining the statutes of every nation''}}
is an example of meta-educology. It is a warranted assertion about a statement about education.

'''Meta-educological inquiry'''. Meta-educological inquiry includes research about the necessary implications of discourse about the educational process. At least two categories of meta-educological inquiry can be distinguished: (1) analytic and (2) normative.<ref name=chrisanalytic/>

'''Analytic meta-educological inquiry''' requires the use of the principle of deduction (necessity reasoning) as its logic of inquiry. It produces warranted analytic meta-statements as its product of inquiry. Its techniques of inquiry include concept isolation, propositional isolation, concept analysis, propositional analysis, definition (including classificatory, synonymy, equivalent expression definition), identification of definition functions (including reportive, stipulative, programmatic functions), explication, model case, contrary case, borderline case, invented case, related concept, unrelated concept, term substitution, subscripts, invented terms, social context technique, result in language technique, practical results technique.<ref name=chrisanalytic/> Its phenomena of inquiry (phenomena about which inquiry is conducted) are all of the sets of discourse about the educational process. Its purpose of inquiry is description and explanation of the implications of all discourse about the educational process.<ref name=chrisanalytic/>

'''Normative meta-educological inquiry''' requires the use of the principle of evaluation (evaluative reasoning) as its logic of inquiry. It produces warranted normative meta-statements as its product of inquiry. Its techniques of inquiry include value clarification, value validation, value vindication and rational value choice.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Taylor |first1=Paul W |title=Normative Discourse|year=1961|publisher=Prentice-Hall Inc|location=Englewood Cliffs, NJ|isbn=0837166284}}</ref> Its phenomena of inquiry (phenomena about which inquiry is conducted) are intrinsically and extrinsically good and bad states of affairs for and within discourse about the educational process. Its purpose of inquiry is description, explanation, prediction, prescription and justification of intrinsically and extrinsically good states of affairs for and within discourse about the educational process.<ref name=chrisanalytic/>

'''Not a subfund of educology'''. Meta-educology does not constitute a subfund of educology. Educology is its phenomena of inquiry, just as education is the phenomena of inquiry for educology. Educology is the set of phenomena about which meta-educological research inquires. Education is the set of phenomena about which educological research inquires. See Table 5.
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Critical category
! Category details for analytic meta-educology
! Category details for normative meta-educology
|-
| Kind of inquiry
| Analytic meta-educological inquiry
| Normative meta-educological inquiry
|-
| Logic of inquiry
| Principle of deduction (necessity reasoning)
| Principle of evaluation (evaluative reasoning)
|-
| Product of inquiry
| Warranted analytic meta-assertions (verified analytic meta-statements or analytic meta-educology)
| Warranted normative meta-assertions (verified normative meta-statements or normative meta-educology)
|-
| Techniques of inquiry
| Concept isolation, propositional isolation, definition (classificatory, synonymy, equivalent expression), definitional function (reportive, stipulative, programmatic), explication, model case, contrary case, borderline case, invented case, related concept, unrelated concept, term substitution, subscripts, invented terms, social context technique, results in language technique, practical results technique
| Value clarification, value validation, value vindication, rational value choice
|-
| Phenomena of inquiry (phenomena inquired about or object of inquiry)
| All discourse about the educational process
| Intrinsically and extrinsically good and bad states of affairs for and within discourse about the educational process
|-
| Purpose of inquiry
| Description and explanation of the necessary implications of discourse about the educational process and justification for the use of terms and categories in discourse about the educational process
| Description, explanation, prediction, prescription, justification of intrinsically and extrinsically good states of affairs for and within discourse about the educational process
|-
| Product of inquiry
| Analytic philosophy of educology
| Normative philosophy of educology
|-
| Subfund of educology
| None (not a part of educology): analytic meta-educology is a fund of knowledge at a second level of discourse, above and outside of educology
| None (not a part of educology): normative meta-educology is a fund of knowledge at a second level of discourse, above and outside of educology
|}
'''Table 5: Critical categories for forming analytic and normative meta-educology'''

==Responsibilities of educological researchers==
It is the responsibility of educological researchers to be expert in both educological inquiry and meta-educological inquiry.<ref name=chrisanalytic/> Both activities are required in the task of competently making warranted assertions about the educational process. It is the educological researcher's responsibility to identify significant problems about the educational process and to solve those problems. It is also the educological researcher's obligation to clarify:

# What kind of problem is being posed to solve, i.e. what logic of inquiry does the problem require?
# What product of inquiry does the problem imply?
# What techniques of inquiry does it indicate?
# Which phenomena of inquiry demand its focus?
# What purpose of inquiry does the problem serve?

To ask and answer these five questions is to undertake meta-educological research. If the educological researcher omits these questions, the researcher risks derailment at the very beginning of the inquiry. Much work can be wasted and invalid results perpetrated if an analytic question is mistaken for an empirical one, or an empirical one, for a normative one. Each kind of question implies its appropriate logic, product, techniques, phenomena and purpose of inquiry. Analytic questions must be treated as analytic questions for the results to be valid, and so it is for normative and empirical questions. This is why educological researchers, in order to do their job properly and correctly, must be able to undertake expert meta-inquiry at the second level of discourse, i.e. at the level of warranted assertions about statements about the educational process. See Table 6.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Level of discourse
! Distinguishing characteristics of the level
|-
| Level 2 discourse
(discourse about educology)
| Fund of knowledge: meta-educology (warranted assertions about statements about the educational process)
|-
| Level 1 discourse
(discourse about education)
| Fund of knowledge: educology (warranted assertions about the educational process)
|-
| Level 0
(no discourse)
| Phenomena: education (the phenomena of teaching, studying and learning under guidance some content in some physical, social and cultural milieu)
|}
'''Table 6: Education, educology and meta-educology and corresponding levels of discourse'''

==Knowledge about education vs. knowing about education==
Educologists distinguish between knowledge about education and knowing about education.<ref name=brezinkaetal/> Knowledge is warranted assertions. Knowing is the learned ability to perform adequately in relation to some purpose and some state of affairs.

'''Educological knowledge.''' Educology is an example of knowledge. It is a fund of recorded warranted assertions about the educational process. It is located in the discourse of books or any other medium suitable for recording statements, e.g. magnetic tape, microfilm, microfiche, computer memory, CDs, DVDs. Recorded propositional knowledge about the educational process is related to knowing about the educational process, but it is quite distinct from it as well.<ref name=brezinkaetal/>

'''Educological knowing.''' From an educological viewpoint, knowing is an ability which is realized (vs. potential). It is learned (vs. being inherited or being instinctual). It is an ability to perform with some intention (i.e. it is a purposeful performance). It is done in relation to some state of affairs. And the ability takes some form, or is manifested in some way (at least five forms of knowing can be distinguished). An example of knowing is that of knowing about education. Knowing about education is educological knowing. It is the learned ability to perform adequately with intention or purpose in relation to the educational process. Knowing is located within the function of people. It is their cognitive function in relation to the educational process. As students, people can study the recorded propositions in educology in order to extend their educological knowing. In doing so, they extend their cognitive function in relation to the educational process. Through their study, they might improve their function with respect to their conduct as teachers, students, counselors, coaches, trainers, mentors, curriculum developers, educational administrators and managers, or educological researchers (including retro-researchers, re-searchers and neo-searchers).<ref name=brezinkaetal/>

'''Extension of knowing from studying educology.''' As students, through their study of educology, people can extend their ability to speak purposefully and adequately about education or to speak purposefully and adequately while engaging within the process of education as a teacher, student, counselor, curriculum developer, administrator or manager. They might extend their ability to think to themselves, silently, about education, to write soundly about education, or to draw supportable and warranted inferences about education. Studying educology, under guidance or independently, is a means by which one can extend one's ability to recall educational states of affairs, anticipate educational moments, create educational occasions, or discern educational transactions.<ref name=brezinkaetal/>

'''Transience of knowing vs. permanence of knowledge.''' It is the nature of human beings that we are mortal. We all die, and our knowing dies with us. But educology does not die. While a person's cognitive function ceases with that person, recorded propositions about education remain in the recorded media. Each person who comes anew as a student to the fund of educology has the opportunity to extend her or his educological knowing. In addition, new generations, through successful educological research (retro-search, re-search, neo-search) have the opportunity to contribute to the revision and extension of the fund of warranted assertions which constitutes educology.<ref name=brezinkaetal/>

==The range of educological knowing==
Educologists distinguish at least three kinds of educological knowing. Each of the kinds may be manifested in at least five forms and at three levels. The three kinds are qualitative, quantitative and procedural knowing.<ref>See
*{{Cite journal|last=Maccia|first=George|title=Contributions of Epistemology Towards a Science of Education|journal=A paper presented to the International Congress of International Association for the Advancement of Educational Research| publisher=University of Paris|date=1973 September}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Maccia|first=George|title=Epistemological Considerations of Educational Objectives|journal=A paper presented to the Philosophy of Education Section of the XVth World Congress of Philosophy| publisher=Varna, Bulgaria|date=1973 September}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Maccia|first=George|title=Educological Epistemology|journal=A paper presented to the 1973 Annual Meeting of the Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society| publisher=Cincinnati, Ohio|date=1973 November}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Maccia|first=George|title=Education for Humanity: A Philosophical Educology|journal=International Journal of Educology|volume=6|issue=1|pages=11–18|publisher=Educology Research Associates|year=1992|url=http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED360376&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED360376|issn=08180563}}
*{{Cite journal|last=Maccia|first=George|title=Genetic Epistemology of Intelligent Systems: Propositional, Procedural and Performative Intelligence|journal=A paper presented to Hangzhou University|publisher=Hangzhou, China|year=1988|url=http://educology.indiana.edu/Maccia/GeneticEpistemologyOfIntelligentSystems_propositionalProceduralPerformativeIntelligence1988.pdf}}
*{{cite book |last1=Steiner |first1=Elizabeth|title=Logical and Conceptual Analytic Techniques for Educational Researchers |year=1978|publisher=University Press of America|location=Washington, DC|isbn=081910406X}}</ref> The five forms are linguistic, physical, imaginal, emotional and conative. The three levels are preconventional, conventional and postconventional.<ref>The concepts of forms of knowing and levels of knowing are treated in more detail in
*{{Cite journal|last=Christensen|first=James E|title=Cognition, Knowing and Understanding: Levels, Forms and Range|journal=Proceedings of the National Conference of the Australian Association for Research in Education|pages=78–85|publisher=AARE|year=1983|url=http://www.aare.edu.au/83pap/83_2_2.pdf}}
*{{cite book |last1=Lane |first1=David|last2=Christensen|first2=James E|title=The School Librarian’s Guide to Curriculum Development |year=1985|publisher=Educology Research Associates|location=Sydney, NSW|isbn=0949784036}}</ref> The three kinds of knowing are distinguishable with respect to the object or states of affairs in relation to which the knowing is performed. The five forms of knowing are distinguishable with respect to the manner in which the knowing is manifested. The three levels of knowing are distinguishable with respect to the degree of expertise with which the knowing is performed.

'''Range of knowing.''' The combination of kinds, forms and levels of knowing constitutes a range of knowing. A range of knowing may vary from narrowly restricted to widely extended. It is possible for a person to develop qualitative knowing without procedural or quantitative knowing. It is possible for a person to develop, for example, procedural knowing at a conventional level in a linguistic form, but not in a physical form. A wide or extensive range of knowing constitutes understanding.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Levels of knowing
! Kinds of knowing
! Forms of knowing
(ways in which knowing is manifested)
|-
| Third level: postconventional knowing
|
# Qualitative knowing
# Quantitative knowing
# Performative knowing
|
# Linguistic
# Emotional
# Imaginal
# Physical
# Conative
|-
| Second level: conventional knowing
|
# Qualitative knowing
# Quantitative knowing
# Performative knowing
|
# Linguistic
# Emotional
# Imaginal
# Physical
# Conative
|-
| First level: preconventional knowing
|
# Qualitative knowing
# Quantitative knowing
# Performative knowing
|
# Linguistic
# Emotional
# Imaginal
# Physical
# Conative
|}
'''Table 7: Range of knowing as combinations of levels, kinds and forms of knowing'''

'''Qualitative knowing.''' Qualitative knowing about education is the ability to perform adequately in relation to unique states of affairs within education. A teacher recognizes, is acquainted with and appreciates Michael's moods, motivations, aspirations and capabilities, not as an adolescent or a middle class child or a student in his 9th year of school, but as Michael, in all of his uniqueness. This is an example of a teacher's qualitative knowing. The teacher might be able to manifest this qualitative knowing of Michael in talking with Michael (linguistic knowing), in anticipating Michael's behavior (imaginal knowing), in making gestures to which Michael will respond positively (physical knowing), in having a certain set of purposes in mind for Michael (conative knowing). Qualitative knowing of education gives the knower (e.g. teacher, student, counselor, administrator, manager, curriculum developer, researcher) sensitivity for the educational process and for features within the process so that significant and important aspects of the process can be discerned and appreciated by the knower.

'''Quantitative knowing.''' Quantitative knowing about education is the ability to perform adequately in relation to states of affairs within education as members of categories. A teacher can, for example, classify Michael's behavior as typical of 15 year olds. The teacher can categorize Michael's capabilities as characteristic of middle level achievers and relate his aspirations and motivations to what one might expect of middle class adolescents. The teacher might manifest this quantitative knowing in writing a report (linquistic knowing), in having a feeling of familiarity and towards Michael's behavior as typical of boys of his age (an emotional knowing), in imagining how Michael will resemble his mates in a year's time (imaginal knowing), in making gestures and managing body language towards boys of Michael's kind (physical knowing) and in forming intentions and purposes for instruction appropriate to Michael as a member of the category of male adolescents (conative knowing). Quantitative knowing gives the knower adequacy and power with respect to theory (i.e. quantitative knowing gives theoretical adequacy). The knower with quantitative knowing about education can describe and explain (i.e. theorize) about the educational process in terms of categories and classifications of features or aspects of the educational process. The knower can do this, if she or he has quantitative knowing, with necessary and sufficient evidence and sound inferences.

'''Procedural knowing.''' Procedural knowing is the ability to use a set of procedures to achieve an intended result. A teacher, for example, starts class by having the children line up outside the classroom, enter the classroom in single file and take their seats as assigned seats. The teacher has learned that this set of procedures achieves an orderly entry into the room and focuses the attention of pupils upon what is to happen next in the lesson. In this example, this teacher is manifesting procedural knowing. When the teacher is giving directions, the procedural knowing is being manifested as linguistic procedural knowing. It can be manifested in gestures and body language (physical knowing), in feelings (emotional knowing), in anticipation (imaginal knowing) and in purposes and intentions (conative knowing). Procedural knowing is the basis for effective action within the educational process.

'''Other possibilities of knowing.''' While the examples just given of qualitative, quantitative and procedural knowing were ones in which a teacher manifested the three kinds and five forms of knowing, other players in the educational process are capable of learning these kinds and forms of knowing about education. These include students, counselors, coaches, mentors, administrators, managers, curriculum specialists and any one interested in knowing about education from a professional viewpoint or from the viewpoint of extending one's liberal education. One can develop educological knowing as a liberal study as well as a professionial study.

'''Levels of knowing.''' At least three levels of knowing are possible (preconventional, conventional and postconventional). The three levels relate to the distinctions of beginner, intermediate, expert and expert innovator. One who has preconventional knowing is just at the beginning of learning some kind and form of knowing about education. The person has not yet achieved the conventions for a set of knowing. At the conventional level, the person has learned the conventions, and the level includes both intermediate and expert performances. The postconventional level is being manifested when the knower is creating innovations which have not yet beome conventions. Innovative expert performers within the educational process and researchers who are engaged in neo-search about the educational process, if successful, are performing at the postconventional level of knowing. They are setting new standards or conventions of knowing about education.

==The way to rational constructive action in education==
Within matters educational, experience is highly prized. While it is true that experience within the educational process is important for developing educological understanding, educologists maintain that experience alone is insufficient.<ref name=brezinkaetal/> All of us experience disease, but this does not qualify us as medical practitioners. We occupy space and exist in time, but this experience does not transform us into physicists. So it is with educological knowing. In order to develop educological understanding, one must engage in experiences with an educological perspective so that the significant and important features of the experience may be discerned, reflected upon, evaluated and appreciated educologically. In order to develop a range of knowing about education, one must, as a student, study educology in addition to having experience within the educational process. Rational constructive action within the educational process requires educological understanding. Without understanding, naive uninformed action can be taken, but not rational, well informed action. If naive uninformed action is constructive, it will be by accident, not by educological knowing. The way to rational constructive action within the educational process is through coming to know as much as one can about education from an educological perspective. Educological knowing requires study of educology, i.e. the reading and comprehension, reflection upon and intelligent action in relation to warranted assertions about the educational process. It is educology which provides concepts, propositions, facts and theory about education and cognitive structure for reasoning about education and for taking rational constructive action in and for education.

==Uses of educology==
'''Liberal and professional education.''' Educologists argue that educology has uses in the curriculum of liberal education as well as professional education. Liberal education is undertaken to extend one's ability to function as a free person with free will within a free and democratic society. Professional education is undertaken to function as an effective, ethical and accountable practitioner, e.g. a teacher, counsellor or mentor, within the educational process.<ref name=steinerfreedom/> Sound educological understanding provides the basis for undertaking rational, constructive action within the educational process and for engaging in sound, well informed discourse about the educational process. Through studying educology, one can develop educological understanding towards several ends, e.g. towards
# heightened sensitivity for, to and within educational situations,
# effective participation within educational situations (as teacher, student, counsellor, coach, manager, etc.),
# articulation of sound theory and justificatory arguments about educational situations and
# resolution of problems connected with educational situations.
The liberal and professional uses of educology are described, explained and illustrated in a number of educological works.<ref name=brezinkaetal/>

'''Naming professional organizations.''' Another important use of educology is the naming of professional organizations whose purposes are to conduct research, produce knowledge and disseminate knowledge about the educational process. For example, the conflation of (1) object of inquiry with (2) product of inquiry is removed by making the change of name from:
#the ''American '''Educational''' Research Association'' to the ''American '''Educological''' Research Association'',
#the ''Australian Association for Research in '''Education''''' to the ''Australian Association for Research in '''Educology''''',
#the ''Comparative '''Education''' Society'' to ''Comparative '''Educology''' Society'' and
#the ''Society of Professors of '''Education''''' to the ''Society of Professors of '''Educology'''''.<ref name=chrisorganization>For detailed explanation and exemplification, see:
*{{cite book |last1=Christensen |first1=James E|last2=Fisher|first2=James E|title=Organization and Colleges of Education: An Educological Perspective |year=1983|publisher=Educology Research Associates|location=Sydney|isbn=0949784028}}
*{{cite book |last1=Christensen |first1=James E|last2=Fisher|first2=James E |editor-first=James E| editor-last=Christensen |title=Perspectives on Education as Educology |publisher=Washington, DC: University Press of America|year=1981 |pages=263–300|chapter=Chapter 12: Educology as an Organizational Concept for Schools of Teacher Education, Colleges of Education, and Faculties of Education |isbn=0819113934}}</ref>

'''Naming organizational units.''' Likewise, educology has an important use for naming organizational units whose purpose it is to teach and extend knowledge about the educational process. The use of educology in the naming of organizational units within academies, institutes, colleges and universities dispels conflation of concepts and confusion in discourse about education. For example, the name change from:
#''college of '''education''''' to ''college of '''educology''''',
#''school of '''education''''' to ''school of '''educology''''',
#''faculty of '''education''''' to ''faculty of '''educology''''' and
#''department of '''education''''' to ''department of '''educology'''''
removes the conflation of (1) object of inquiry with (2) product of inquiry and makes clear that the purpose of the units is to teach and study knowledge about educational phenomena and extend knowledge about the educational process.<ref name=chrisorganization/>

'''Structuring programs, curricula and courses.''' Within organizational units of educology (university faculties, colleges, schools, departments) the six critical categories of
#kind of inquiry
#logic of inquiry
#techniques of inquiry
#phenomena inquired about
#purpose of inquiry
#products of inquiry
have important applications for making decisions about
#course titles and descriptions,
#curriculum arrangements and
#organization of academic staff.
Use of these categories reduces the likelihood of category mistakes, nonsensical contradictions and wasteful duplication in educological programs, curricula, courses and organization of staff. The application of the six categories also increases the probability of arrangements of academic staff and curricula which have coherency, clarity and flexibility, without ambiguity or equivocation. The benefits of using the six critical categories include the likelihood of producing an organization which (1) makes sense to those whom it arranges and (2) contributes to cooperative effort towards the worthwhile goal of extending knowledge about education.<ref name=chrisorganization/>

==See also==
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*[[Andragogy]]
*[[Education]]
*[[Education economics]]
*[[Educational anthropology]]
*[[Educational psychology]]
*[[Epistemology]]
*[[Knowledge sharing]]
*[[Learning theory]]
*[[Learning theory (education)]]
*[[Pedagogy]]
*[[Philosophy of education]]
*[[Praxeology]]
*[[Psychopedagogy]]
*[[Sociology of education]]
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==References==
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[[Category:Education]]
[[Category:Epistemology]]