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Frank Simon, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University, Belgium This publication, as well as the ones that are mentioned on the preliminary pages of this work, were realized by the Research Community (FWO-Vlaanderen/Research Foundation Flanders, Belgium) Philosophy and History of the Discipline of Education: Faces and Spaces of Educational Research.  Free Download Education, Culture and Epistemological Diversity: Mapping a Disputed Terrain By Claudia W. Ruitenberg, D. C. Phillips (auth.), Claudia W. Ruitenberg, D.C. Phillips (eds.) 2012 | 162 Pages | ISBN: 9400720653 | PDF | 1 MB In the recent educational research literature, it has been asserted that ethnic or cultural groups have their own distinctive epistemologies, and that these have been given short shrift by the dominant social group. 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