The book offers guidance on the theoretical and methodological resources available to practitioners and others with an interest in doing research on policy and discusses some of the main issues and problems in doing policy research on education. It offers examples of research on policy at different system levels, pursuing themes such as globalization, changing governance of education, selection, choice and exclusion, managerialism and the feminisation of educational management.
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Readers are taken through the various stages in conducting case study research, including a helpful account of data collection and data analysis methods.
Publisher description: "This book offers new insights into the case study as a tool of educational research and suggests how it can be a prime research strategy for developing educational...
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.
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Ethical Technology Use, Policy, and Reactions in Educational Settings provides state-of-the-art research on the impact of ethical computer use in academia and emphasizes the cyberphilosophical aspects of human-computer interactions.
This work explores how to set about historical research in education. It locates this field in relation to changes in educational research, historical research, and a range of social sciences....
Heward, C. (1994) Academic snakes and merit ladders: reconceptualising the 'glass ceiling', Gender and Education, ... Hey, V. (1999) Troubling the Auto/Biography of the Questions: re/thinking rapport and the politics of social class in ...
Authors in this compilation share lessons learned about power, privilege, and their meanings as they pertain to conducting research in and with urban settings.