David Halpin Researching education policy

Ethical and methodological issues
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-1-135-71982-1
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 242 Seiten

The methodology researching of educational policy is the subject of this book. It takes a "behind the scenes" look at the conducting, the analysis and the interpretation of research carried out into educational policy issues revolving around the 1988 Education Reform Act.; The contributors draw on their project research experience to demonstrate the breadth of issues lionked with such policy research, and cover the gender and power balance between interviewer and interviewee, the difficulties resulting from different ideological stances of researchers and researched, and difficulties in finding links between research and policy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

David Halpin,

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1 Theory, Scholarship and Research into Education Policy: Where we are now: reflections on the sociology of education policy, Charles D. Raab; Coming to terms with research: the contract business, May Pettigrew; Scholarship and sponsored research: contradiction, continuum or complementary activity?, Robert G. Burgess. Part 2 The Ethics of Research into Education Policy: The constraints of neutrality: the 1988 Education Reform Act and feminist research, Beverley Skeggs, Researching inside the state: issues in the interpretation of elite interviews, Stephen J. Ball; Sex, lies and audiotape: interviewing the education policy elite, Jenny Ozga and Sharon Gewirtz. Part 3 Methodological Perspectives on Research into Education Policy: Ethnography, policy-making and practice in education, Martyn Hammersley; Students' secondary school careers: research in a climate of "moving perspectives", Gwen Wallace, Jean Rudduck and Susan Harris.