Educational discourse in the research. Draft framework of research perspectives

Abstract

Our aim throughout the contribution was to systemize perspectives employed by the researchers in the studies of educational discourse. Three perspectives of empirical insight into educational discourses were reconstructed in the course of our analysis of selected research examples: optimizing, analytic and critical. The criterion underpinning the analysis was a pragmatic function of the studies. Hence, the links between the choice of research perspective, results of research and practical implications for school improvement were discussed.