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Researching School Experience
There is a tendency in much educational thinking to view pupils in passive terms, as the material on which schools operate. This damaging view is challenged here. Significant …
Social Research
This critical introduction to the principles of social and educational research draws together a key set of readings which offers a comprehensive approach to the wide range of …
Educational Research, Policymaking and Practice
`This valuable book addresses an important current issues for education research in developed countries - the relationship between research on the one hand and policy-making and …
Challenging the Qualitative-Quantitative Divide
This book challenges the divide between qualitative and quantitative approaches that is now institutionalized within social science. Rather than suggesting the 'mixing' of methods, …
A Rhapsody of the Rockies
Taking Sides in Social Research
In the past it was generally taken for granted that the goal of social research was the production of objective knowledge; and that this required a commitment to value neutrality. …
Understanding Research with Children and Young People
How do views about children shape research concerned with their lives? What different forms can research with children take? What ethical issues does it involve? How does it impact …
Allies, Contacts, Enemies and Rivals
Case Study Method
This is the most comprehensive guide to the current uses and importance of case study methods in social research. The editors bring together key contributions from the field which …
Limits of Social Science
What forms of knowledge can social science claim to produce? Does it employ causal analysis, and if so what does this entail? What role should values play in the work of social …
Monte Carlo Methods
This monograph surveys the present state of Monte Carlo methods. we have dallied with certain topics that have interested us Although personally, we hope that our coverage of the …
The Radicalism of Ethnomethodology
There have been relatively few well-informed, critical assessments of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. This book examines some of the background to these approaches, …