"The theoretical components of research are some of the most complicated and challenging aspects for new researchers to understand. While relevant methodologies are routinely covered by textbooks, the theory behind the practice can remain unnecessarily opaque. In six concise cha…
Die Jugendarbeitsgruppe KOSMOS (JAGK) mit ihrer DDR-weiten Organisation störte durch ihre Erfolge die Deutungshoheit der SED in Raumfahrtinstitutionen, Sternwarten und Schulen. Von der weltweiten Faszination der Raumfahrt angesteckt, gingen ihre Mitglieder vielfältige ausländisc…
Educational research often discounts the uniqueness and ubiquity of software and the hidden political, economic, and epistemological ways it impacts teaching and learning in K-12 settings. Drawing on theories and methodologies from English education, critical discourse analysis,…
This book critically examines the context, origins, development and implementation of successive primary school curricula in Ireland between 1897 and 1990. It focuses on three particular policy changes during the period: the Revised Programme of Instruction introduced in 1900, t…
Educationalists offer an overview of methods for researching those in positions of power. They focus on key issues with broad relevance to social scientists such as access, interviewing, data restrictions, ethical dilemmas and the role of theory.
Front Matter -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface and acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: education as the great equalizer: a theoretical framework -- 2. Inequality of educational returns in France: changes in the effect of education and social background on occu…
"Inhabited Silence in Qualitative Research demonstrates, or "puts to work," post-structural theory in the doing of qualitative research. Using this theoretical approach, the book proposes a data set lacking in the methodological literature, namely silence. It highlights the need…
