Researching Education Data Methods and Theory in Educational Enquiry 2nd Edition by David Scott, Robin Usher ISBN 1441120548 978-1441120540

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ISBN 10: 1441120548
ISBN 13:  978-1441120540
Author: David Scott, Robin Usher

Researching Education looks at the theory and practice of researching education and examines the philosophical; historical; political and social contexts of research and the implications of these for the collection and analysis of data. Scott and Usher argue that while power is ever present in the construction of research texts; this is inevitable as research imposes a closure of the world through representations and thus is always and inevitably involved with and implicated in the operation of power. The authors provide a theoretical framework against previously compiled research can be judged to stimulates further study and consider key questions: What is legitimate knowledge? What is the relationship between the collection and analysis of data? How does the researcher’s presence in the field impact on their data? This new edition has been completely revised to reflect new insights into education research and educational research methodology and the impact of recent political initiatives. Researching Education is invaluable reading for educational and social researchers as well as postgraduate and doctoral students. Corpus Linguistics in Literary Analysis provides a theoretical introduction to corpus stylistics and also demonstrates its application by presenting corpus stylistic analyses of literary texts and corpora. The first part of the book addresses theoretical issues such as the relationship between subjectivity and objectivity in corpus linguistic analyses; criteria for the evaluation of results from corpus linguistic analyses and also discusses units of meaning in language. The second part of the book takes this theory and applies it to Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen and to two corpora consisting of 1) Austen’s six novels and2) texts that are contemporary with Austen. The analyses demonstrate the impact of various features of text on literary meanings and how corpus tools can extract new critical angles

Researching Education Data Methods and Theory in Educational Enquiry 2nd Table of contents:

1 Introduction

Preamble

Conspectus

Part 1 Knowledge and Philosophy

2 Philosophical Issues in Educational Research

Philosophy

Epistemology

Positivism

Representational realism

Textuality

Postmodern critiques

3 Critical Approaches to Research

Interpretivist/hermeneutic approaches

Critical theory

Action research

4 Forms of Reasoning

Induction

Deduction

Retroduction

Abduction

Part 2 Strategies and Methods

5 Experiments and Quasi-Experiments

Internal validity

External validity

One-off case study design

Single-group experimental design

The static group comparison

The pre-test and post-test control group design

Factorial design

The problem of time

6 Survey and Correlational Designs

Sampling

Statistical Processes

‘School Matters: The Junior Years’

Causality

7 Qualitative Research Design, Case Study and Theory Building

Logical inference

Case study

Quality/quantity

Epistemology/ontology

Communicative competence

8 Observation

Participation

Instrument structure

Fitness for purpose

9 Interviews

Interview structure

Epistemological and ontological frameworks

Power relations

10 Biographical and Autobiographical Methods

Biography/autobiography

Phenomenological/structural approaches

The text

Part 3 Themes and Issues

11 Ethics and Educational Research

Covert research

Open democratic research

Open autocratic research

12 Evaluation and Research

Differences

Commonalities

13 Criteria for Evaluating Research

Naturalistic inquiry

Alternative criteria

Examining research texts

Internal and external criteria

Types of judgement

Evidence in judgement

Parasitic criteria

External criteria

Concluding remarks

14 Transgressive Research

A postmodern approach

Feminist approaches to research

Radical research practices

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