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Educational Research
Volume One: Current Issues
Edited by:
- Martyn Hammersley - The Open University, UK
256 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
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.
PART ONE: THE NATURE OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
History of Educational Research
Qualitative Research Traditions
Self-Doubt and Soft Data
Objectivity in Educational Research
Subjectivity and Objectivity
PART TWO: DOING EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
How to Think About Causality
Increasing the Generlizability of Qualitative Research
Problems of Sociological Fieldwork
Primary Teachers Talking
PART THREE: EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
Educational Theory
What is an Educational Practice?
Action Research
The Politics of Method
On the Teacher as Researcher
The most useful text from a well-known author in this field.
Faculty of Education (Ormskirk), Edge Hill University
October 5, 2015
