Doing Educational Research / Edition 1

by Geoffrey Walford

Overview

Thirteen major educationalists offer semi-autobiographical accounts of their own influential research work, focusing on the practical and personal realities of the research process. Authors such as Barbara Tizard and Martin Hughes, Stephen J. Ball, David Reynolds and Peter Mortimore discuss their approaches to aspects of research from conception and funding of the project to information gathering and analysis, writing up and publishing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415052900
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/06/1991
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

1. Refexive Accounts of Doing Educational Research Geoffrey Walford 2. Reflections on Young Children Learning Barbara Tizard and Marting Hughes 3. Researching Common Knowledge: Studying the Content and Context of Educational Discourse Neil Mercer 4. Breakthroughs and Blockages in Ethnographic Research: Contrasting Experiences during the Changing Schools Project Lynda Measor and Peter Woods 5. Researching The City Technology College, Kinghurst Geoffrey Walford 6. Young, Gifted and Black: Methodological Reflections of a Teacher/Researcher Mairtin Mac an Ghaill 7. Working Together? Research, Policy and Practice. The Experience of the Scottish Evaluation of TVEI Colin Bell and David Raffe 8. Primary Teachers Talking: A Reflexive Account of Longitudinal Research Jennifer Nias 9. Power, Conflict, Micropolitics and all That! Stephen J. Ball 10. Doing Educational Research in Treliw David Reynolds 11. The Front Page of Yesterday's News: The Reception of Educational Research Peter Mortimore Index

Editorial Reviews

'Deserves a place on reading lists for undergraduate and postgraduate students working on methodology.' - Evaluation and Research in Education

From the Publisher

It is the belief of the contributors to this volume that the idealized models of research presented in traditional textbooks do not prepare novice researchers for the political and social realities of the actual research practice. The contributors present reflexive autobiographical accounts of the major research projects with which they have been involved; the majority of the chapters examine particular segments of the process of a research project that led to a major book. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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