Educational Research Books
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Knowledge Mobilization and Educational Research: Politics, Languages and Responsibilities
Edited by Tara Fenwick, Lesley Farrell
How can educational research have more impact? What processes of knowledge exchange are most effective for increasing the uses of research results? How can research-produced knowledge be better ‘mobilized’ among users such as practicing educators, policy makers, and the public communities? These...
August 2011 | 978-0-415-61465-8 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Postfeminist Education?: Girls and the Sexual Politics of Schooling
By Jessica Ringrose
What are the effects of post-feminist, neo-liberal politics and practices, and for which girls? Can we better understand the current gender and educational climate through making post-feminist discourses our object of critical inquiry? Contemporary post-feminist politics are grounded in...
August 2011 | 978-0-415-55749-8 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Thinking with Theory in Qualitative Research: Using Epistemological Frameworks in the Production of Meaning
By Alecia Youngblood Jackson, Lisa Mazzei
Thinking With Theory In Qualitative Research shows how by using various epistemological frameworks in practices of inquiry, researchers can open up the production of meaning in qualitative data analysis. In this book the authors use a common data set and then use various epistemological...
August 2011 | 978-0-415-78099-5 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Early Childhood Teacher Research
By Kathryn Castle
This exciting new resource, Early Childhood Teacher Research, is a comprehensive guide for early childhood students and professionals in understanding and doing early childhood teacher research. This accessible and interactive book touches upon the important issues every early childhood...
July 2011 | 978-0-415-87759-6 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Emerging Approaches to Educational Research: Tracing the Socio-Material
By Tara Fenwick, Richard Edwards, Peter Sawchuk
The last fifteen years have seen much conceptual and methodological innovation in research on education and learning across the lifecourse, bringing both fresh insights and new dilemmas. This innovation was initially fuelled by the growing influence of conceptual framings often named as either...
July 2011 | 978-0-415-57092-3 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Introductory Statistics: A Guided Tour
Edited by William B. Ware, John M. Ferron, Barbara M. Miller
This comprehensive and uniquely organized text is aimed at undergraduate and graduate level statistics courses in education and psychology. An organization scheme built around common issues and problems rather than statistical techniques allows students to understand the conceptual nature of...
July 2011 | 978-0-415-99600-6 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Beginning Interpretive Inquiry: A Step-by-Step Approach to Research and Evaluation
By Richard Morehouse
This book is entitled Beginning Interpretive Inquiry and not beginning interpretive research or interpretive evaluation. For as the author shows inquiry is a far more inclusive concept that allows for a detailed understanding of both research and evaluation. The author draws on his personal...
July 2011 | 978-0-415-60189-4 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Design Research on Learning and Thinking in Educational Settings: Enhancing Intellectual Growth and Functioning
Edited by David Dai
The central question this book addresses is how a design research-based science of learning (with its practical models and related design research) can provide insights and integrated models of how human beings actually function and grow in the social dynamics of educational settings with all their...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-88051-0 | Paperback (Routledge)