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1. Curriculum Practice

   Some Sociological Case Studies

   Edited by Martyn Hammersley, Andy Hargreaves

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

   When first published this book was one of the first collections of empirical research in the area of the knowledge transmitted in schools and the responses of students to it. It includes studies of the histories of particular school subjects and of how the knowledge they embody is presented in the...

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
2. Ethnography

   Principles in Practice

   By Martyn Hammersley, Paul Atkinson

   Now in its third edition, this leading introduction to ethnography has been thoroughly updated and substantially rewritten. It offers a systematic introduction to ethnographic principles and practice. New material covers the use of visual and virtual research methods, hypermedia software and the...

   Published June 13th 2007 by Routledge
3. Media Bias in Reporting Social Research?

   The Case of Reviewing Ethnic Inequalities in Education

   By Martyn Hammersley

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   The main way in which research findings can be disseminated to a wide audience is via the mass media. However, there are frequent complaints that media coverage of social and educational research is very limited and often highly distorted. Exploring this issue in depth, this key book analyzes...

   Published July 26th 2006 by Routledge
4. Taking Sides in Social Research

   Essays on Partisanship and Bias

   By Martyn Hammersley

   In the past it was generally taken for granted that the goal of social research was the production of objective knowledge; and that this required a commitment to value neutrality. In more recent times, however, both these ideals have come to be challenged, and it is often argued that all research...

   Published November 3rd 1999 by Routledge
5. Researching School Experience

   Explorations of Teaching and Learning

   Edited by Martyn Hammersley

   There is a tendency in much educational thinking to view pupils in passive terms, as the material on which schools operate. This damaging view is challenged here. Significant recent research shows the effects of changing educational conditions on the experience of teaching and learning in schools....

   Published September 8th 1999 by Routledge
6. Gender and Ethnicity in Schools

   Ethnographic Accounts

   Edited by Martyn Hammersley, Peter Woods

   A serious but highly accessible look at recent work on the issues of gender and race. Gender and Ethnicity in Schools raises crucial educational and political issues, paying particular attention to the pupils' experience of school....

   Published January 6th 1993 by Routledge
7. What's Wrong With Ethnography?

   By Martyn Hammersley

   This stimulating and refreshing study, written by one of the leading commentators in the field, provides novel answers to these crucial questions. "What's Wrong With Ethnography provides a fresh look at the rationale for and distinctiveness of ethnographic research in sociology, education and...

   Published December 4th 1991 by Routledge
8. Dilemma Qualitative Method

   By Martyn Hammersley

   Published September 5th 1990 by Routledge