By Lorna Earl, Andy Hargreaves, Jim Ryan
March 25, 1996
Focusing on change and reform in secondary and elementary schools, this book explores the possibilities for better schooling for early adolescents....
By Colin Marsh
December 05, 2008
Key Concepts for Understanding Curriculum is an invaluable guide for all involved in curriculum matters. Now fully updated, this revised and enlarged fourth edition provides not only a solid grounding in the subject but also covers the latest trends and issues affecting the field. Written in ...
By Ivor F. Goodson, Colin J. Marsh
November 29, 1996
School subjects and how they are viewed and positioned within education is the focus of this text. It argues that, as part of rethinking the whole school curriculum, there has been a failure to look at the historical and social background of school subjects....
By Garry Anderson, Nancy Arsenault
March 31, 1998
Fundamentals of Educational Research succeeds in cutting through the complexities of research to give the novice reader a sound basis to define, develop, and conduct study, while providing insights for even the accomplished reader.This best-selling book is of value to all social researchers, ...
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By J. Bradley Cousins, Lorna M. Earl
August 16, 1995
This text focuses on "participatory evaluation", an approach that involves teachers and educational administrators as partners with researchers in a broad range of school and school system-based evaluation tasks with the explicit goal of using such data to improve practice.; Participatory ...
By Margaret Anzul, Maryann Downing, Margot Ely, Ruth Vinz
March 27, 1997
This text is both about writing up qualitative research and is itself a qualitative study. The written reflections of students on the writing process and the interpretations and presentations of their findings provide a base of data which the authors have, in turn, analyzed and incorporated into ...
By Margaret Anzul, Margot Ely, Teri Freidman, Diane Garner, Ann McCormack-Steinmetz
April 03, 1991
This is designed for those learning qualitative research and those more advanced in the field. It focuses on understanding both the cognitive processes of qualitative research and the affective feel engendered....
By Gary Borich
February 10, 1995
What is an effective school and what is an effective teacher? These are vitally important questions for the beginner teacher; questions which are answered in this book through conversational dialogues between a principal, a pre-service teacher and experienced teachers. The book draws on the mass of...
By Pamela Maykut, Richard Morehouse
September 08, 1994
The authors have focused this book on the serious, beginning, qualitative researcher - theoretically rigorous, yet with an understandable perspective.; The book has three main features. First, it provides a strong theoretical base for the understanding of competing research paradigms. Secondly, it ...
By Christopher J. Anstead, Ivor F. Goodson, J. Marshall Mangan
September 17, 1997
School knowledge has been a subject for historians, notably in the field of history of education. concentrating on the educational aspects of particular historical periods, however, links with contemporary education have often remained undeveloped.; This text attempts to account for the growth of ...
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By Rita S. Brause, John S. Mayher
March 25, 1991
Provides guidance on how to read research and how to conduct research in the classroom. It aims to engender in teachers an awareness of the possibility of research to broaden their outlook of their profession....
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By Joe Kincheloe, Shirley Steinberg
March 31, 1998
This book focuses directly on student empowerment through meaningful research. It fills a specific gap in educational literature by making explicit the relationship between teaching method, classroom practice, and the production of knowledge. Drawing on the best of theoretical innovations over the ...