Poststructuralism, and its implications for something called 'postmodernism, ' is a major topic of discussion in social theory and research generally, including educational research. The works of the major authors in this tradition (Foucault, Lyotard, Cixous, Derrida, Haraway, t…
The central question of this book is the meaning of poststructuralism and its significance for educational enquiry. The authors highlight the implications of a poststructuralist stance for the conception of the researcher and research subject in education, for the aims of educat…
This book presents a disciplined, qualitative exploration of case study methods by drawing from naturalistic, holistic, ethnographic, phenomenological and biographic research methods. Robert E. Stake uses and annotates an actual case study to answer such questions as: How is the…
What is the problem to be solved? -- Think-aloud interview procedures: measuring problem solving response processes -- Cognitive laboratory interview procedures: measuring comprehension and understanding -- Think-aloud interview procedures: analyzing and generating inferences fr…
The field of education is rife with calls to action and for research to improve higher-level thinking and learning outcomes in primary, secondary, and tertiary education. With the No Child Left Behind Act and even more recently the Every Student Succeeds Act, policymakers are ac…