Doing Educational Research by Geoffrey Walford (English) Paperback Book

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Doing Educational Research collects together the semi-autobiographical accounts of the research of thirteen major educationalists, all of whom have been involved in prominent and influential projects. In recounting the ways in which their work was conducted, the authors focus on the practical and personal aspects of the research process, so often overlooked in conventional accounts. Coping with the complicated and the unpredictable emerges as a keynote in these descriptions of the reality of educational research. The authors discuss the various stages of the research process including conception of the project, obtaining funding, gaining access to the research site, managing research relationships, gathering information, analysing data, writing up the research report, publishing books and articles, and the reception given to the research by others. Educationalists, policy-makers, and those involved in education research will all benefit from a greater knowledge of the research methods used in these major studies.The book offers new understanding for those who read and use educational research, and will be a source of support and guidance for students and researchers attempting to conduct their own research.

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Thirteen major educationalists offer semi-autobiographical accounts of their own influential research work, focusing on the practical and personal realities of the research process. Authors such as Barbara Tizard and Martin Hughes, Stephen J. Ball, David Reynolds and Peter Mortimore discuss their approaches to aspects of research from conception and funding of the project to information gathering and analysis, writing up and publishing.

Table of Contents

1. Refexive Accounts of Doing Educational Research Geoffrey Walford 2. Reflections on Young Children Learning Barbara Tizard and Marting Hughes 3. Researching Common Knowledge: Studying the Content and Context of Educational Discourse Neil Mercer 4. Breakthroughs and Blockages in Ethnographic Research: Contrasting Experiences during the Changing Schools Project Lynda Measor and Peter Woods 5. Researching The City Technology College, Kinghurst Geoffrey Walford 6. Young, Gifted and Black: Methodological Reflections of a Teacher/Researcher Mairtin Mac an Ghaill 7. Working Together? Research, Policy and Practice. The Experience of the Scottish Evaluation of TVEI Colin Bell and David Raffe 8. Primary Teachers Talking: A Reflexive Account of Longitudinal Research Jennifer Nias 9. Power, Conflict, Micropolitics and all That! Stephen J. Ball 10. Doing Educational Research in Treliw David Reynolds 11. The Front Page of Yesterday's News: The Reception of Educational Research Peter Mortimore Index

Review

'Deserves a place on reading lists for undergraduate and postgraduate students working on methodology.' - Evaluation and Research in Education

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