Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Educology
The proposal for deletion appears to arise from perhaps a misreading of the Educology article. First, it is not true to say that the article is based on primary sources from a handful of proponents. A careful reading reveals that the article cites 105 secondary sources and 22 primary sources, and the number of scholars cited in the article who identify as educologists is 30. Many more could be cited, but there are already perhaps too many references. Second, a careful reading of the article also reveals that the Educology article is not a polemic for educology. Rather, it is a well documented description of what constitutes educology as described and exemplified by scholars who identify as educologists and produce educology. Third, the contention that educology “appears to be a nonnotable fringe theory” mischaracterizes the article. A careful reading reveals that the article does not argue that educology is a theory. Rather, the article clearly states that educology is not a theory and that it is the fund of knowledge about the educational process. The fund of knowledge includes empirical facts, explanatory theories and normative arguments. The article states that the fund is produced by careful, disciplined research (educological inquiry) about the educational process, including research about the essential elements of education and the mutual effects of its elements upon each other. And the article notes that the role of theory within educological discourse is to provide terms, explanations and justifications which can be used to guide, clarify and organize educological discourse and that theories within educological discourse compete with each other about how and why education works in the way that it does, how education should be conducted and what purposes education does and should serve. Critical pedagogy, for example, is one of those theories which competes in educological discourse with other educological theories about the proper purpose of the educational process and proper ways to teach, study and learn. Fourth, it is not true that “a search on Google Scholar reveals the word is seldom mentioned in the academic literature.” A search of the term “educology” on Google Scholar reveals over 4000 results. Given these four points, given the substantial 64 year old history of educological literature, beginning with the publications by Lowry Harding (1951), given the number of universities which have departments, schools, colleges and/or institutes of educology and given the number of scholars around the world who have contributed to educological literature over these past 64 years (and in spite of the many people who have not read and assimilated any of this literature or use the term “educology” in their discourse), it would seem reasonable to conclude that the Educology article satisfies the criteria for  and that the article should remain on Wikipedia. To delete the article would certainly be a loss to Wikipedia readers who want to know about educology (1260 page views over the past 90 days
— User:CalaEdwards, 17:01, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:GNG (Wikipedia:Notability)