Understanding Educational Research
1996
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London : Routledge, 1996.
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208p. : index.
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Publication date: 04/07/1996.Readership level: Research/professional.This work explores educational research in terms of the relationship between epistemology, methodology and practice. It examines the frameworks which underpin the methods educational researchers use and the broad spectrum of approaches, including feminist approaches and action research.
Contents:
1. Introduction David Scott and Robin Usher Part one: Frameworks 2. A critique of the neglected epistemolgical assumptions of educational research, Robin Usher 3. Textuality and reflexivity in educational research, Robin Usher 4. Methods and data in educational research, David Scott 5. Making judgements about educational research, David Scott Part two: Practices 6. Evaluation as realpolitik, Janet Harland 7. Action research and reflective practice 8. Feminist approaches to research, Pat Usher 9. Ethnography and education, David Scott 10. The purposes and processes of biographical method, Michael Erben 11. Afterword: the politics of educational research Robin Usher and David Scott.
ISBN:
0415131316 (pbk)0415131308
Dewey class:
370.72
Language:
English
BRN:
1855278