Researching Education

Data, Methods and Theory in Education Enquiry

By: David Scott, Robin Usher

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Paperback | 1 September 2000 | Edition Number 1

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This volume is a study of the theory and practice of researching education. It examines the philosophical, historical, political and social contexts of researching and the implications of these for the collection and analysis of data. The authors argue that power is ever present in the construction of research texts and this is inevitable, as research imposes a closure of the world through representation and thus is always involved with and implicated in the operation of power. The book addresses such fundamental questions as: What is legitimate knowledge?, What is the relationship between the collection and analysis of data? and How does the researcher's presence in the field affect his or her data?. Divided into three sections, the book reviews the philosophy of research; the strategies and methods of research; and the issues involved in research. The authors present the reader with a balance of theory and practice, providing case studies, examples and tables to support and illustrate their arguments.

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List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction	p. 1
Philosophy	p. 7
The Place of Philosophical Issues in Educational Research	p. 9
Critical Approaches to Research	p. 23
Ways of Thinking	p. 41
Strategies and Methods	p. 51
The Experimental Method	p. 53
Survey and Correlational Designs	p. 67
Qualitative Research Design, Case Study and Theory-building	p. 84
Observation	p. 99
Interview Methods	p. 108
Biographical and Autobiographical Method	p. 117
Issues	p. 125
Ethics and Educational Research	p. 127
Evaluation and Research	p. 135
Criteria for Evaluating Research	p. 146
Transgressive Research	p. 154
References	p. 163
Name Index	p. 173
Subject Index	p. 176
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