Wie tickt und was treibt die deutschsprachige Erziehungswissenschaft?

Abstract How Does the German Educational Science ›Tick‹ and What Does It Do? Pedagogical perspectives on the one hand and perspectives of educational science perspectives on the other have different motives, objectives and forms of legitimation. It makes little sense to conceive them as opposites, nor is it convincing to try to reconcile them. The article is intended as an essay, parts of it are speculative and some passages seem to lack decency, this is especially true of the third part, which is entitled »Family Feuds and Family Resemblances«. Educational science can be seen as a large family. As in every family, its members are preoccupied with themselves and sometimes have nothing to say to each other, or they argue for a long time without any winners emerging. Do we need to worry about this family? Yes, in almost every respect, except for its existence.