The 'good practices' of Jozef Emiel Verheyen - schoolman and Professor of Education at the Ghent University / Marc Depaepe, Frank Simon & Angelo Van Gorp -- Ovide Decroly, a hero of education / Angelo Van Gorp -- Why generalizability is not generalizable / Lynn Fendler -- The new languages and old institutions : problems of implementing new school governance / Daniel Trohler -- Problematization or methodology / James D. Marshall -- The relevance of irrelevant research ; the irrelevance of relevant research / Paul Smeyers -- Expectations of what schientific research could (not) do / Kathleen Coessens and Jean Paul Van Bendegem -- Kuhnian science and education research : analytics of practice and training / Lynda Stone -- The international and the excellent in educational research / David Bridges -- Technical difficulties : the workings of practical judgement / Richard Smith -- The science of education - disciplinary knowledge on non-knowledge/ignorance? / Edwin Keiner.