Being Reflexive in Critical and Social Educational Research

Being Reflexive in Critical and Social Educational Research

Author: Geoffrey Shacklock

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-11-01

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1135710511

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This text is a collection of case studies and readings on the subject of doing research in education. It takes a personal view of the experience of doing research. Each author presents a reflexive account of the issues and dilemmas as they have lived through them during the undertaking of educational research. Coming from the researcher's own perspectives, their positions are revealed within a wider space that can be personal, political, social and refexive. With this approach, many issues such as ethics, gender, race, validity, reciprocity, sexuality, class, voice, empowerment, authorship and readership are given an airing.


How to be a Reflexive Researcher

How to be a Reflexive Researcher

Author: Hibbert, Paul

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2021-11-05

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1839101857

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This stimulating and challenging book provides a guide to reflexivity and reflexive practice, explaining its relevance to research in management, organisation studies and the social sciences. Rooted in the latest research, case studies and the authorÕs personal experience, the book builds a new perspective on reflexive practice involving bodily, emotional, rational and relational insights.


Theory and Methods in Social Research

Theory and Methods in Social Research

Author: Bridget Somekh

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2011-01-13

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1446246329

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This new edition provides a scholarly and readable introduction to all the key qualitative and quantitative research methodologies and methods, enabling postgraduate and masters-level students and new researchers to reflect on which ones suit their needs and to receive guidance on how to find out more. With chapters written by experienced research practitioners, this second edition has been extensively expanded and updated. There are seven completely new chapters, as well as: - new material on literature reviews - a new introduction to quantitative methods - an expanded glossary - Weblinks with free access to a wide range of peer-reviewed journal articles - an annotated bibliography with conversational notes from authors in each chapter. This book will act as your ′expert friend′ throughout your research project, providing advice, explaining key concepts and the implications for your research design, and illustrating these with examples of real research studies.


Being Reflexive in Critical and Social Educational Research

Being Reflexive in Critical and Social Educational Research

Author: Geoffrey Shacklock

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-11

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 113571052X

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This text is a collection of case studies and readings on the subject of doing research in education. It takes a personal view of the experience of doing research. Each author presents a reflexive account of the issues and dilemmas as they have lived through them during the undertaking of educational research. Coming from the researcher's own perspectives, their positions are revealed within a wider space that can be personal, political, social and refexive. With this approach, many issues such as ethics, gender, race, validity, reciprocity, sexuality, class, voice, empowerment, authorship and readership are given an airing.


Handbook of Teacher Education

Handbook of Teacher Education

Author: Tony Townsend

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2006-08-09

Total Pages: 738

ISBN-13: 1402047738

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This book provides a wide-ranging review of the current state of teacher education, with contributions by an international group of teacher educators. It focuses on issues confronting teacher educators today and in the coming decade, including the impact of globalization on the profession of teaching, and the need for teacher education to adapt to changing accountability requirements, and establish a set of minimum standards that qualify a person to teach.


Reflexivity and Critical Pedagogy

Reflexivity and Critical Pedagogy

Author: Anne Ryan

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-09-06

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 9004384502

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Reflexivity and Critical Pedagogy highlights the essential nature of reflexivity in creating sites for transformative possibilities in education. The book argues that seemingly intractable epistemological inequalities are embedded within educational structures and processes and also contends that perspectives which define knowledge as a unitary truth are essentially inadequate to address current global problems. Further, it argues that people and ideas traditionally positioned outside the academy are vital to developing more effective educational interventions. This volume stresses the influence of dominant societal discourses in creating and sustaining particular and limited definitions of knowledge. It also explores their power in delineating acceptable processes of knowledge dissemination. These discourses, whether consciously or otherwise, indwell teachers, learners and policy-makers as well as educational structures and organisations. It proposes reflexivity as the key component needed to combat such forces and one that is an essential ingredient in critical pedagogy.


Becoming A Researcher: A Research Companion For The Social Sciences

Becoming A Researcher: A Research Companion For The Social Sciences

Author: Dunne, Mairead

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

Published: 2005-07-01

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 0335213944

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This innovative book combines what most books separate: research as practical activity and research as intellectual engagement. It clarifies and makes explicit the methodological issues that underlie the journey from initial research idea to the finished report and beyond. The text moves the researcher logically through the research process and provides insights into methodology through an in-depth discussion of methods. It presents the research process as an engagement with text. This theme moves through the construction of text in the form of data and the deconstruction of text in analysis. Finally the focus moves to the reconstruction of text through the re-presentation of the research in the report. Following through each of these stages in turn, the chapters consider either a practical issue or a group of methods and interrogate the associated methodological concerns. In addition, the book also addresses the rarely explored issues of the researcher as writer and researcher identity as core elements of the research process. The book provides a range of insights and original perspectives. These successfully combine practical guidance with the invitation to consider the problematic nature of research as social practice. It is an ideal reference for those embarking on research for the first time and provides a new methodological agenda for established researchers.


Becoming a Researcher

Becoming a Researcher

Author: Mairead Dunne

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

Published: 2005-07-16

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0335224911

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This innovative book combines what most books separate: research as practical activity and research as intellectual engagement. It clarifies and makes explicit the methodological issues that underlie the journey from initial research idea to the finished report and beyond. The text moves the researcher logically through the research process and provides insights into methodology through an in-depth discussion of methods. It presents the research process as an engagement with text. This theme moves through the construction of text in the form of data and the deconstruction of text in analysis. Finally the focus moves to the reconstruction of text through the re-presentation of the research in the report. Following through each of these stages in turn, the chapters consider either a practical issue or a group of methods and interrogate the associated methodological concerns. In addition, the book also addresses the rarely explored issues of the researcher as writer and researcher identity as core elements of the research process. The book provides a range of insights and original perspectives. These successfully combine practical guidance with the invitation to consider the problematic nature of research as social practice. It is an ideal reference for those embarking on research for the first time and provides a new methodological agenda for established researchers.


Education, Globalisation and New Times

Education, Globalisation and New Times

Author: Stephen J. Ball

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2007-03-08

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 1134093284

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Education, Globalisation and New Times comprises a selection of the most influential papers published over the twenty-one years of the Journal of Education Policy. Written by many of the leading scholars in the field, these seminal papers cover a variety of subjects, sectors and levels of education, focused around the following major themes: education, globalisation and new times policy theory and method policy and equity. Compiled by the journal's editors, Stephen Ball, Ivor Goodson and Meg Maguire, the book illustrates the development of the field of education policy studies, and the specially written Introduction contextualises the selection, whilst introducing students to the main issues and current thinking in the field.


Becoming a Reflexive Researcher

Becoming a Reflexive Researcher

Author: Kim Etherington

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 1843102595

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In contrast to traditional impersonal approaches to research, reflexive researchers acknowledge the impact of their own experience, beliefs and culture on the processes and outcomes of inquiry. The author uses a range of narratives, including her own research diary, to show the reader how reflexive research works in practice.