Doing research about education / edited by Geoffrey Walford.

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Walford, Geoffrey

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Social research and educational studies series ; 17.Publication details: London ; Philadelphia, PA : Falmer Press, 1998.Description: 1 online resource (vii, 208 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0203209354
9780203209356
0203289226
9780203289228
1280066989
9781280066986

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Doing research about education.DDC classification:

370.72 22

LOC classification:

LB1028 .D65 1998eb

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Contents:

Chapter 1 Introduction: Research Accounts Count / Geoffrey Walford -- chapter 2 Researching the 'Pastoral' and the 'Academic': An Ethnographic Exploration of Bernstein's Sociology of the Curriculum / Sally Power -- chapter 3 'Are you a girl or are you a teacher?' The 'Least Adult' Role in Research about Gender and Sexuality in a Primary School / Debbie Epstein -- chapter 4 Critical Moments in the Creative Teaching Research / Peter Woods -- chapter 5 Developing the Identity and Learning Programme: Principles and Pragmatism in a Longitudinal Ethnography of Pupil Careers / Ann Filer with Andrew Pollard -- chapter 6 Using Ethnographic Methods in a Study of Students' Secondary School and Post-school Careers / Gwen Wallace, Jean Rudduck and Julia Flutter with Susan Harris -- chapter 7 More than the Sum of Its Parts? Coordinating the ESRC Research Programme on Innovation and Change in Education / Martin Hughes -- chapter 8 Climbing an Educational Mountain: Conducting the International School Effectiveness Research Project (ISERP) and the ISERP Team / David Reynolds, Bert Creemers, Sam Stringfield, Charles Teddlie and the ISERP Team -- chapter 9 The Making of Men: Theorizing Methodology in 'Uncertain Times' / Chris Haywood and Máirtín Mac an Ghaill -- chapter 10 The Profession of a 'Methodological Purist'? / Martyn Hammersley -- chapter 11 The Director's Tale: Developing Teams and Themes in a Research Centre / Robert G. Burgess -- chapter 12 The 'Last Blue Mountain'? Doing Educational Research in a Contract Culture / Valerie Wilson -- chapter 13 Compulsive Writing Behaviour: Getting It Published / Geoffrey Walford.

Summary: This work brings together semi-autobiographical accounts from major educationalists about their research, focusing on the practical and personal aspects of the research process. It reflects changes within educational research since the 1980s.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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This work brings together semi-autobiographical accounts from major educationalists about their research, focusing on the practical and personal aspects of the research process. It reflects changes within educational research since the 1980s.

English.

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