Abstract
Practice research represents a gap in the methodological discussion of media education that is increasingly being recognised. On the one hand, Anglo-Saxon concepts, as opposed to approaches of an "objective hermeneutics", have increasingly thematised the concept of the subject in research, discovering the proximity to practice-oriented research. In particular, the approach of design-based research can be seen as a resumption of considerations from action research. Methodologically, this essay introduces abduction as an inferential procedure that focuses on the aspirations of practice-oriented research.