Educational Research

Volume One: Current Issues
Martyn Hammersley - The Open University, UK
Published in Association With the Open University
Educational Research
November 1993 | 256 pages | Sage UK
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The chapters in this book outline the history and scope of educational research. They also discuss many of the major issues at stake in current debates, and exemplify the contrasting perspectives to be found in the literature.

This is the companion volume to Educational Research in Action (edited by Roger Gomm and Peter Woods). It is one of two course readers for The Open University course E824 Educational Research Methods.

Contents

PART ONE: THE NATURE OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

  • History of Educational Research
  • Qualitative Research Traditions
  • Self-Doubt and Soft Data
  • Social and Technical Trajectories in Ethnographic Fieldwork
  • Objectivity in Educational Research
  • Subjectivity and Objectivity
  • An Objective Inquiry.

PART TWO: DOING EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

  • How to Think About Causality
  • Increasing the Generlizability of Qualitative Research
  • Problems of Sociological Fieldwork
  • A Review Of The Methodology Of Hightown Grammar
  • Primary Teachers Talking
  • A Reflexive Account of Longitudinal Research

PART THREE: EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND PRACTICE

  • Educational Theory
  • What is an Educational Practice?
  • Action Research
  • The Politics of Method
  • From Leftist Ethnography to Educative Research
  • On the Teacher as Researcher

Description

The chapters in this book outline the history and scope of educational research. They also discuss many of the major issues at stake in current debates, and exemplify the contrasting perspectives to be found in the literature.

This is the companion volume to Educational Research in Action (edited by Roger Gomm and Peter Woods). It is one of two course readers for The Open University course E824 Educational Research Methods.

Contents

PART ONE: THE NATURE OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

  • History of Educational Research
  • Qualitative Research Traditions
  • Self-Doubt and Soft Data
  • Social and Technical Trajectories in Ethnographic Fieldwork
  • Objectivity in Educational Research
  • Subjectivity and Objectivity
  • An Objective Inquiry.

PART TWO: DOING EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

  • How to Think About Causality
  • Increasing the Generlizability of Qualitative Research
  • Problems of Sociological Fieldwork
  • A Review Of The Methodology Of Hightown Grammar
  • Primary Teachers Talking
  • A Reflexive Account of Longitudinal Research

PART THREE: EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND PRACTICE

  • Educational Theory
  • What is an Educational Practice?
  • Action Research
  • The Politics of Method
  • From Leftist Ethnography to Educative Research
  • On the Teacher as Researcher
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Educational Research

Volume One: Current Issues

Martyn Hammersley
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November 1993 | 256 pages | Sage UK

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The chapters in this book outline the history and scope of educational research. They also discuss many of the major issues at stake in current debates, and exemplify the contrasting perspectives to be found in the literature.

This is the companion volume to Educational Research in Action (edited by Roger Gomm and Peter Woods). It is one of two course readers for The Open University course E824 Educational Research Methods.


Table Of Contents:

  • PART ONE: THE NATURE OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
  • History of Educational Research
  • Qualitative Research Traditions
  • Self-Doubt and Soft Data
  • Social and Technical Trajectories in Ethnographic Fieldwork
  • Objectivity in Educational Research
  • Subjectivity and Objectivity
  • An Objective Inquiry.
  • PART TWO: DOING EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
  • How to Think About Causality
  • Increasing the Generlizability of Qualitative Research
  • Problems of Sociological Fieldwork
  • A Review Of The Methodology Of Hightown Grammar
  • Primary Teachers Talking
  • A Reflexive Account of Longitudinal Research
  • PART THREE: EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
  • Educational Theory
  • What is an Educational Practice?
  • Action Research
  • The Politics of Method
  • From Leftist Ethnography to Educative Research
  • On the Teacher as Researcher

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