The Research Process in Educational Settings

The Research Process in Educational Settings
Author: Robert G. Burgess
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2011-12-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0415506344

This book presents a series of research biographies based on research experiences in the study of educational settings. The main aim is to provide a set of first person accounts on doing research that combine analysis with description. The contributors have been drawn from the disciplines of sociology and educational studies and have all conducted ethnographic work or case studies in a variety of educational settings.

The Research Process in Educational Settings (RLE Edu L)

The Research Process in Educational Settings (RLE Edu L)
Author: Robert G Burgess
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2012-05-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136459987

This book presents a series of research biographies based on research experiences in the study of educational settings. The main aim is to provide a set of first person accounts on doing research that combine analysis with description. The contributors have been drawn from the disciplines of sociology and educational studies and have all conducted ethnographic work or case studies in a variety of educational settings.

Educational Research

Educational Research
Author: Norman E. Wallen
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 567
Release: 2001
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0805832807

This second edition of a core text for introductory courses in educational research is a unique text-workbook that actually carries students through the process of designing and analysing a research project of their choice.

Research in Educational Settings

Research in Educational Settings
Author: Geoffrey Maruyama
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1992-05-06
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780803942080

This volume aims to help prospective educational researchers plan their research in schools more carefully. It focuses on such issues as: access and credibility in the school; traditional issues of designing research; questions that emerge as the design is imposed on the school culture and setting particularly with regard to school staff and student assessment; the length of interventions and whether or not to schedule follow-up studies; and how to interpret and communicate findings to schools and policy makers. Using personal experiences from their field research to illustrate key concepts, the authors have also included a research project to clarify the practical issues of school research.

Doing Sociology of Education (RLE Edu L)

Doing Sociology of Education (RLE Edu L)
Author: Geoffrey Walford
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2012-05-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136462082

This collection of specially commissioned articles exposes the practical and personal influences on the process of doing sociology of education. All of the authors have been involved in conducting well know major research projects, and discuss here the pitfalls and problems, conflicts and compromises that went into doing their particular research. A particular feature of the book is that a wide variety of types of research in the sociology of education is covered. The range is from small-scale ethnographic case studies to large-scale postal questionnaire sample surveys and includes studies based on interviews, observation and questionnaires. There are examples of longitudinal work in case studies and in surveys. The collection also includes discussions of action research, the development and influence of theory, and the relationship between research and policy.

Social Crisis and Educational Research (RLE Edu L)

Social Crisis and Educational Research (RLE Edu L)
Author: Len Barton
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2012-04-27
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136471111

Originally written at a time of crisis in the education system of Britain – occasioned by cuts, contradictions and change - many of the issues discussed in this book are still relevant today. Debate in the book focuses upon an examination of the nature of the crisis, an exploration of the impact of the crisis upon school processes and upon the relationship between life in school and in the wider community, an investigation of the responses being made by pupils, teachers and educationalists to the day-to-day manifestations of the crisis and a consideration of how the current crisis is giving a particular poignancy to issues to do with the theories and methods employed in our study and interpretation of contemporary educational processes.

Doing Research in Organizations (RLE: Organizations)

Doing Research in Organizations (RLE: Organizations)
Author: Alan Bryman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2013-05-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1135930848

This textbook provides first-hand, inside accounts of the process of doing research in organizations. It is intended both for students of research methods in sociology and social psychology, and for students of organization studies, organizational behaviour and management. The contributors tackle such problems as: gaining access to organizations, ‘getting on’ in organizations, quantitative and qualitative styles of investigation, the use of historical materials, the effects of resources on the context of research, the part played by political factors in organizational research, the relevance of grounded theory and conducting research within a cross-cultural framework.

Teacher Strategies (RLE Edu L)

Teacher Strategies (RLE Edu L)
Author: Peter Woods
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2012-05-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136462783

This book takes as its focus the key interactionist concept of ‘strategy’, a concept fundamental to many current concerns in the sociology of the school, including the understanding of the links between society and the individual, a more accurate description of certain areas of school life and implications for the practice of teaching. ‘Strategy’ bears on all these issues. It concerns both goals, and ways of achieving them and short-term, immediate aims as well as long-term ones. The essays in this book share a common concern with teacher strategies, emphasizing the discovery of intentions and motives, alternative definitions of situations and the hidden rules that guide our behaviour. Amongst the areas investigated are the influence of factors outside the school in determining the role of the teacher, and the nature and influence of teacher commitment. The implications for practical action and policy making are stressed throughout, and by recognising and exploring the constraints and influences that operate on teachers, this work constructs a realistic appraisal of the teaching situation.

Educability, Schools and Ideology (RLE Edu L)

Educability, Schools and Ideology (RLE Edu L)
Author: MICHAEL Flude
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2013-05-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136470417

The sociology of education has been at the forefront of new developments in sociological theory. This book examines and criticizes a number of these new developments and discusses some empirical work on issues of current concern. One of the few books that integrates radical and critical sociology into the field of education, it deals with the resultant difficulties. The topics covered include cultural deprivation, ideologies in education, classrooms, the teaching profession and the history of women’s education.

Paradigm and Ideology in Educational Research (RLE Edu L)

Paradigm and Ideology in Educational Research (RLE Edu L)
Author: Thomas Popkewitz
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2012-05-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136465790

This book explores the complex social assumptions and values that underlie research programmes about schools. The analysis of educational research draws upon American and European scholarships in the sociology of knowledge, social philosophy and the history and sociology of science. The discussion considers first the communal, crafts and social characteristics of educational research. Three research models empirical-analytic, symbolic or linguistic and critical sciences are given attention. The discussion of the three research models is to illuminate how the constellation of commitments, assumptions and practices inter-relate to perform a paradigm giving different and conflicting definitions to the meaning of educational theory and to the use of the particular techniques of enquiry. The social role of educational research and the researcher is also considered.