Doing Research About Education / Edition 1

by Geoffrey Walford

Overview

This book brings together semi-autobiographical accounts from major educationalists about their influential research, focusing on the practical and personal aspects of the research process.
The collection reflects the great changes that have occured within educational research since the 1980s and deals with the issues and situations of the late 1990s. It includes accounts that cover the various stages of the research process, a sampling of topics, the diversity of methodologies used in educational research and a range of theoretical perspectives. There is coverage of qualitative and quantitative methodologies and of large and smaller scale research. Also discussed are: ESRC programme research, contract research and theoretical research.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780750707831
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/29/1998
Series:	Social Research and Educational Studies
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: research accounts count 2. Researching the pastoral and the academic: an ethnographic exploration of Bernstein's sociology of the curriculum 3. Are you a girl, or are you a teacher? Some questions about researching gender and sexuality in a primary school 4. Critical moments in the Creative Teaching research 5. Developing the Identity and Learning Programme: principles and pragmatism in a longitudinal ethnography of pupil careers 6. Using ethnographic methods in a study of students'secondary school and post-school careers 7. More than the sum of its parts? Coordinating the ESRC research programme on Innovation and Change in Education 8. Climbing an educational mountain: conducting the International School Effectiveness Research Project (ISERP) 9. The making of men: theorizing methodology in uncertain times 10. The profession of a methodological purist? 11. The director's tale: developing teams and themes in a research centre 12. The last blue mountain? Doing educational research in a contract culture 13. Compulsive writing behaviour: getting it published

Editorial Reviews

Experienced education scholars share their experiences and insights, describing the research itself and revealing the practical and personal aspects of the process. They reflect changes in the field since the 1980s and deal with the issues and realities of the 1990s, cover various stages of the research process, sample a variety of topics and methodologies, and explore a range of theoretical perspectives. Their projects have spanned qualitative and quantitative and large and small. No subject index. Distributed in the US by Taylor and Francis. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Booknews

This book is beyond the level of practical methodology of which there are numerous texts, and should take our students thinking beyond the basic concepts. - Denny Mallows, Ripon and York St John University

'The value of this book (and the others in the series) is both for relatively inexperienced researcher and also for the experienced and senior researchers in different ways. For the former, it contains warnings of pitfalls and suggests how to avoid them. The experienced researcher can get more from it than this.' John Nisbet, Education in the North

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